I had turned targeted ads off, on Facebook and Instagram. I still got ads but they were not targeted based on my data. I could live with that
Today I got a popup requiring me to pick an option of either accepting targeted ads or pay the equivalent of €13/$14 for an addfree experience across all meta platforms.
The issue with Friendica, compared to Lemmy/Mastodon/etc, is that you’d need your friends and communities to also move to Friendica, which hardly happens
Are you thinking about Diaspora? Friendica is AP, you can subscribe to Lemmy communities from Friendica.