• imvii@lemmy.caOP
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    3 days ago

    I’m in Canada and Facebook is huge for my business. We get more bang out of a free social media post than paying for advertisements anywhere.

    I fricking HATE IT.

    On a personal level, I almost never use facebook. I refuse to put it on my phone and really only use it not to post stuff for the business - which I do through a 3rd party social media app.

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      3 days ago

      “All it takes for evil to succeed, is good people to say, “it’s just business.”” - Janet Leahy, Michael Reisz

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      3 days ago

      FB is huge in Canada for personal stuff too, me and my friends do not post meal pic or vacation or things like this, but damn marketplace and some hobbies group are strong there. Just the “Made in Canada” FB group grew from 50’000 members to 1.1 million in less than a month.

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        3 days ago

        FB can be easily replaced with Lemmy, it’s just a question of age/generation I guess

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          2 days ago

          Lemmy is more an alternative to reddit. Friendica is the alternative to FB from the fediverse

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          3 days ago

          no not really, its a totally different thing. you cant follow people here, nobody here uses their real name, and you can’t limit visibility of content to just friends. marketplace is also not a thing, and that feature is not just yet another community

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            3 days ago

            I said that a Facebook group is like a Lemmy community, not that Lemmy can replace Facebook. You got friendica for that (never used it though) For marketplace replacement, Flohmarkt is coming

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          2 days ago

          Aren’t there actually tiktok alternatives I’m the Fediverse, rather than suggesting something that’s use case is different?

          Edit: I meant to say Facebook alternatives…