A comprehensive social network for connecting with friends and family, sharing photos, videos, and updates, organizing events, forming groups, and accessing business pages. Offers messaging, live streaming, privacy settings, and a marketplace on both web and mobile platforms.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
United StatesPlatforms
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Tor
- KaiOS
Comments about Facebook as an Alternative to Mastodon
Mastodon: Open-source, decentralized/federated, can even be done p2p... Facebook: closed-source/proprietary, centralized, owned and operated by a company that gets raging hard-ons whenever there's a chance for them to molest your privacy and sell your data to anyone from shops to downright evil governments... If these two have any similarity beyond that they're both on the internet, then I'm guessing a submarine and a jetfighter are also similar.
Facebook pushes whatever content Mark Zuckerberg desires. It's designed to spy on the users and sell ads.
This alternative is disputed. Facebook is a legitimate Mastodon alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.
- Facebook is Free and Proprietary
Facebook makes money by using people's private information for their profit. Your privacy - everyone you know, message, what you like and discuss - is the basis of their money-making. You are the product. Additionally, FB likes can be used to guess with high accuracy people's political preferences. Facebook have also experimented with manipulating peoples' emotions using the news feed. Mastodon does NONE of this; it's free, non-profit and open source.