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[-] imvii@lemmy.ca 73 points 21 hours 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.

[-] enemenemu@lemm.ee 3 points 8 hours ago

Don't feel bad for using it for your business.

As you said, a free post is better than paid ads somewhere else. And you don't use it personally, that's the great part. Moreover, you use lemmy. Kudos to you

[-] Magister@lemmy.world 40 points 21 hours 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.

[-] Suoko@feddit.it 3 points 17 hours ago

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

[-] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 15 points 12 hours 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

[-] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Pretty sure you can follow people on mbin.

I wish Friendica would take off more.

[-] Suoko@feddit.it 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours 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

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

you did. check above

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 hours ago

FB can be easily replaced with Lemmy

[-] Suoko@feddit.it 1 points 7 hours ago

Check below...

[-] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Unsure about that in terms of business pages but I suppose you can if you try hard enough: side bar for standard info, posts for events and communication. The only thing it lacks is the followers portion that acts as soft advertisement, e.g. if your friend follows something, you can see it.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours 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...

[-] bufalo1973@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

Loops, but it's still almost alpha.

[-] Suoko@feddit.it 3 points 12 hours ago

I meant FB groups, they are jusr like Lemmy communities: it's a question of a topic + a group of people

[-] Jack@lemmy.ca 15 points 18 hours 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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