this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2024
19 points (88.0% liked)

Ask Lemmy

27240 readers
2386 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions


Rules: (interactive)


1) Be nice and; have funDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them


2) All posts must end with a '?'This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?


3) No spamPlease do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.


4) NSFW is okay, within reasonJust remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].


5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.


6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online


Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Tech Support

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Reddit

Jokes

Ask Ouija


Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Tl;Dr FB sucks, looking for Android client to view friends/pages/groups posts only.

I don't like Facebook, but my main hobby community exists almost exclusively there.

I try to limit my usage to just within the bounds of my hobby, but it is difficult with all of the garbage FB tries to push in my face every time I look at it.

I would love to have a different client for FB that just gives me content on people I'm friends with. No reels, no suggestions, no ads, just friends/pages/groups.

I've seen that there are alternative FB clients for Android, but it's never clear if they offer something like what I want.

Before I spend time evaluating various clients, does anyone already know of one that does what I want?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] watty@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yea, part of the challenge is that the average age in my hobby (kite flying) is somewhere around 50. So I'd need something with a low barrier to entry.

I like the concept of Friendica because its the most parallel to FB, but it doesn't seem to be a very popular platform and it has little/no mobile apps :/

[–] simplymath@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Signal is super user friendly. I got my family to switch over years ago and even my mom can manage it. Though, it's probably a tough sell for a kite flying group more generally. I do think it's probably a lower barrier than making a new social media account on some fediverse alternative, but hard to explain the advantages to people who don't care about privacy from Zuck.

[–] watty@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was just playing with setting up an account on friendica.world, and so far that shit is pretty rough.

I'll go play with Signal and see how I feel about it. Thanks for the suggestion!

[–] simplymath@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

it's a mobile application first, but desktop options are available. Good luck!