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This is good growth for such a smaller lesser known fedi project that replaces Facebook.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I’ve been looking for a Facebook alternative. It was either Diaspora or Friendica.

    Is Friendica more popular? What are some of the most popular/stable instances with the lowest chances of disappearing?

    • Fitik@fedia.io
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      2 days ago

      1. Diaspora* only supports diaspora protocol. It has about a few thousands MAU I’d say. If you use it you can interact with Diaspora* users and with Friendica/Hubzilla users from servers that have the diaspora addon. You can see a list of Diaspora* pods here.

      2. Friendica on the other hand natively supports ActivityPub, and has addons for BlueSky, Diaspora* and Tumblr (Not all servers have them enabled). It has 3k MAU, but you can communicate with much wider range of folk. There’s also the Friendica directory, allowing you to find interesting folk to follow much more easily. If you want a stable instance I can recommend https://friendica.world/ , it’s managed by the admins of lemmy.world .

      • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Thanks. Yeah after further considerations I went with Friendica. And yes I created my account on Friendica.world also. I think it has a better shot at surviving. But we never know. It takes one fuck-up and everything could go to shit.

        • petrescatraian@libranet.de
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          2 days ago

          I would have recommended you mine or venera.social. They’re around 10 years old or something, so quite some time. But they’ve temporarily closed signups. nerdica.net and anonsys.net have also been around for quite some time, although the former had some problems last year and lost years of database. ouch.

          Then there’s social.trom.tf, which has some of the most wonderful custom themes I’ve seen on Friendica, but their opinions on stuff are a bit weird for me…

          For the rest I don’t know that much.

    • InformaPirata@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I agree that it is an exceptional software, perhaps the best of the Fediverse, but it has a terrible name. The reason for this name was to mark a continuity with the first potentially federated social network, namely “identi.ca”

      Moreover, despite the name, it is not a really friendly software, but presents several ergonomic complexities. Finally, I add that when I pronounce it with my dictation system, it is always transliterated as “free handicap”, which is a very inclusive thing, but every time I have to correct it… 🤣

      This is also why I decided to call my instance with a different name such as Poliverso, Too bad that a few months later Zuckerberg decided to launch his failed Metaverso project, which is why every time I have to explain that I did not call it that to parody the Metaverso 🤬

      • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Shorten to “Frendi”, probably would be enough to get app discussed and shared more.