Am 23.03.2026 um 10:01 schrieb Andreas Fink <afink@list.fink.org>:

On 23.03.2026 09:09, Patrick Studer wrote:
Hi Andreas

That’s the reason, I was deleting my account 3 years ago. But unfortunately, there are to many sites and groups just organized within Facebook. I assume, it’s because it’s „free“ and in some regions of the world, people don’t have to much money to spend in professional websites.

well then these groups are not professional and dont deserve to be considered. Just the data protection aspect of this is a nightmare. GDPR etc...

For Restaurant etc. I could probably life with it, but there are some groups which exist long time and they shared there experience with a product (about 7-8000 members). Even I can push them to move away from Facebook, how can they migrate all the gathered and shared experiences to a new platform.

At least, in metaverse, you are not blocked from content, if you don’t have an account (as far as i know).
I assume, Facebook is the easiest and least cost way to have a presence in the WWW and the largest user base.

I strongly disagree on that. All smart people are not on Facebook anymore. Maybe the chat lover's group is still there. Similar is the case with Twitter now known as X since Elon killed the API rendering all useful 3rd party clients useless.

Sorry, mixed up the name. I was talking about Fediverse about open access to content, not metaverse.

Like I said earlier, I would prefer to not have an account and have access to those sites and groups, but that’s not possible (today).

Well you should address the people which are still there and question their doing why they are pushing others to give away their privacy to an american collecting machine.

You will live much better that way.

Agreed on that one. What would you recommend for them als (free) alternative?