I was never very interested in Instagram so I don’t need to replace it. But I know some people who might. Before I encourage this, some very important question.
What is the porn situation on these? It might be unfair but my impression of all alternative image-sharing platforms is they exist primarily for the benefit of furies and hentai fans. There might be other stuff as well but like on tumblr porn was kind of the backbone. Is it like that?
or is there a viable way in a SFW fashion should you choose, and still have lots of content?
The thing with Facebook that made it special might also have been who was there. It was and for some people maybe still is a mass adopted platform with your whole extended community within reach. It didn’t have polls or reactions for most of the time I used it; that’s not what made it compelling.
There are a ton of existing fediverse platforms, includ8ng some that aim to be more facebook-type and your energy is probably more valuable if you contribute to one of those rather than striking out on your own.
I think Lemmy is in many ways at the opposite end from Facebook because it is more of a hive mind whereas Facebook was highly individualized. Like I don’t think you can be friends or even follow another account on lemmy?. That’s like the most important Facebook relationship. Even mastodon would be closer I think.
If you want to recreate Facebook you’ll need to ask the people you valued the most what it would take for them to use a novel open source platform.
maybe https://docs.rsshub.app/ ?