There are many #Friendica fans, and for good reason. Once you get past the learning curve from the difficult UI, you get to appreciate the extra benefits of built-in #Bluesky, #Lemmy/#Piefed/#MBIN, #Tumblr, and #RSS feed integration. It also has #Diasporia integration and some other protocol integrations. Of course, it’s also a #Mastodon alternative.
Nobody ever mentions Friendica as being a #Threadiverse app, but it has Groups, which is built-in Threadiverse capability. If you follow a Community on Lemmy/Piefed/MBIN, for example, it gets categorized as a group and is placed into a separate section for the groups you are part of. Then you can read and post in the Group (Community/Magazine) just like you would on a Threadiverse application. You can also create public and private groups.
And there is no need to use a Bluesky bridge if the Friendica instance you are on has the integration turned on.
Here’s an excellent 5-minute video showing Friendica created by @earthman@my-place.social for those interested in seeing how it works.
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@Jerry Interesting, but the video shows a completely different way of using #Friendica than I use it.
This is mainly about the newsfeeds, that - which is one speciality of Friendica - can integrate many different protocols, so that there are connections not only to the Fediverse in the narrower sense (= Activity Pub), but also to Bluesky, Tumblr, Threads, Diaspora etc.In contrast, I am only interested in the Fediverse connections (in the broader sense, i.e. including Diaspora).
The other side (which I find more interesting) is Friendica’s advantages, how you can actively interact from Friendica and how you can create your own content, and structure received content + , the good way Fediverse content is displayed,.
Check out !friendica@lemmy.ca too!
Nice
Here’s my problem with a facebook replacement.
I don’t like facebook. Now lets take away all the spying, and data collecting. Lets take away all the corruption. Lets take away the politics. Lets take away the ads. Lets take away everything that most people assosiate with facebook being evil. Lets look at facebook as purely what it claims to try to be. A socizl media gathering place to post pictures of your life. Connect with friends. Post stories. Read others posts. All that.
Lets take facebook at that face value, and only that. Ok? Everybody on the same page? Cool.
I still don’t like facebook. Even without the other stuff, I’m just not the type to document and share my life.
So I start to think about that stuff we excluded earlier. All the evil bullshit. And I realize that my mom and sisters all use facebook. So logically it would make sense to introduce them to frendica, right?
Here’s the issue. I look at what my mom would use facebook/frendica for. She uses it to stay in touch with her sewing friends/groups. People she’s spent 40 years sewing various quilts and projects with. It’s like a book club, but instead of reading and discussing books, they all sew things and share their teqniques.
So I’d have to convince not only my mom to switch, but also all 40+ of her sewing group crew. Then I’d also have to convince the 200 or so OTHER people she’s connected with because “oh, I used to know you in the 1960s when I lived in another state, but now I can reconnect with you and share stuff because the internet and facebook exists!”
THEN I’d need to convince her that facebook is bad. Because without a problem, even if I did manage to get all 250ish people to use friendica, why would they make the switch if they’re already on facebook?
YOU see the problem, and I see the problem…but they won’t. Facebook as it is, from their eyes, is working just fine.
And thats my issue with friendica. It’s there to solve a very real problem, that nobody is asking to fix.
You don’t need to convince everyone to switch. You need to convince some people go join and build the user base.
Once there are users, more people will join. Even if people are not active, if they have an account it’s easier to convince someone to add you.
Think of it as a long term goal.
Yeah, facebook started as just college students and built from there. It wasn’t always every boomer and every other boomer they knew back in elementary school.
Boomers on Facebook are mostly a lost cause so we just have to assume they won’t be part of any kind of new social media movement.
Nobody ever mentions Friendica as being a #Threadiverse app
Probably because the second sentence of your own post intending to promote it was an immediate concession that the UI sucks. “It’s great once you get past how bad it is” isn’t a great pitch.
I’m not trying to sell it. It is what it is. I’m just providing information about Friendica for those interested. I know I was always curious about it.
What in the hashtags is going on here?
Does anyone have experience using Friendica primarily as an RSS reader? Could it function as an alternative to web-based RSS readers like Feedly?
I don’t use Friendica as a feed reader, but I have heard from many people who have had positive experiences with it and enjoy using it.
This contains also an experience report about it: The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 3: Friendica)
My issue right now, and I’m sure for others as well, is lack of an iPhone app. I think Friendica is decent and will only get better with more adaption. An app would help with that I believe. Right now I’m using it as a web app.
Maybe consider getting a phone that doesn’t require a paid developer account for the privilege of distributing software.
My biggest issue with Friendica is that the very top thing I want social media for is to share photos and videos in a private way with friends and family. Of you have to upload your video to YouTube before posting the URLthen that is a terrible experience.
Facebook lets you just grab your photos and vidros and upload them to your post. It automatically converts them from the 200MB+ per minute file your phone made into a 40MB per minute file, so people watching on their phones don’t chew through their data allowance or be unable to play it due to slow internet. It shows the photos in a seamless galley.
I would be willing to put up with almost any other issues if this part was a seamless and user friendly experience, of which no self-hosted Facebook replacement (federated or not) that I have seen can do.
What the Hell is a Threadiverse? Maybe we don’t give a corporate entity branding and credit for a network we built well before they ever came along.
Ah; I rescind my comments and apologize. I can see the reasoning.
What corporate entity is supposed to own the term “threadiverse”? It’s simply a portmanteau of fediverse and thread.
Jerry already caught me up.
To those who haven’t heard it before, it sounds like a way to note that Threads can interope with the Fediverse, now (I can see people who were super excited about Meta joining doing that).
Maybe it being capitalized also made it the first thing my brain jumped to.
In any case, I was mistaken and just hadn’t heard of the term before; just ignore my original comments, basically: they’re wrong.
Oh, I didn’t even think of Metas Threads. That is annoying.
@NineMileTower@lemmy.world you were looking for something like this IIRC
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for sharing. I don’t understand why someone on a social media website would question you for sharing content with another user on a social media website. Again, thank you. This is what I needed.
Happy to help!
If you want to share something with someone, share it with them. Tagging them instead of sharing the content in a normal way spams the whole Lemmy discussion with irrelevant comments.
I’m appreciative of him tagging me. If you don’t like it, downvote and move on. You aren’t contributing to anything, you are just being controlling and negative.
It was the first comment of the thread, to encourage discussion. If there’s something Lemmy could use more of, it’s a bit more discussion rather than fewer comments
Very abnormal but strictly curious user here. What if I’m not very tech-savvy and can’t read your mind when it comes to what you meant by ‘sharing the content in a normal way’? I’m guessing you meant some type of direct message, but I thought there was somewhat of a divide over some instances allowing lemmy DMs and some which force users to DM via matrix protocol(element formerly riot iirc). The comment will find it’s way to the bottom naturally over time(where all spam gets to eventually–thusly what’s the point of having comment voting systems to begin with?)
That communities can be moderated either through voting or moderation is no excuse to spam them because you’re too lazy to make a DM. How your instance wants to handle DMing is a whole separate matter.
‘Don’t be lazy’ is a non-answer to the very few questions I brought up, but I appreciate your opinionated input I guess :D
