Honestly not sure if the concept of Facebook was so great to begin with actually…
A platform to communicate specifically with IRL friends?
Have they figured out how to make access-controlled posts (i.e. friends-only, or for specific subgroups) work with ActivityPub federation, or are all your posts public and visible to anyone, as on Mastodon? If people are going to start using this platform, there will need to be an option for making posts visible only to friends (and “followers only” is not a viable alternative).
I’m not sure how functional it is but this is what I get when creating a post.
if you’re capable and have a server, i recommend spinning up pixelfed and friendica instances for your parents and families. they’re probably the simplest fediverse apps to install too.
it’s one thing for you to move, it’s another thing to be able to get your parents and family to move over.
This is something that I hope fediverse developers and OSS developers start focusing on: making installation and self-hosting much simpler. Currently trying to set up self-hosted anything is a gigantic pain in the ass if you’re not already an experienced sysadmin.
i wonder if a geocities or ezboard style could work
how would you recommend pitching it? I know all the sweet unix/linux things, and freedom and such, but how would you pitch it in a way that your parents would care about?
well most of the time - at least for me - they’re just there for the rest of the family so if you can get the rest of the family on there and then maybe let them invite their friends, that’s all they really need
that’s what I’m worried about for mine, they’ve become addicted to the slop
It doesn’t need to be all or nothing for them at first. If you share on it maybe they’ll share some thing there too slowly.
you’ll also need to remember to interact with the platform like you were with them in public, for a few reasons. Plus the Internet could stand to be less harsh
The software might be, but what makes a social network is the network effect, and the biggest public english friendica server has a few hundred users.
I had an account in like 2016, but it got deleted after a few months due to inactivity…
The thing about Federation is that one server of a few hundred users can federate with all the other servers of a few hundred units and also other Federated services.
The next thing you know, you have a social network graph of millions of people, on thousands of servers (and not one ad).
That small of a userbase and they still nuke accounts for being inactive?
They don’t have a monetary incentive to bloat their figures.
Letting people who aren’t on all the time keep their accounts isn’t really bloating the figures. Deleting you after a few months of inactivity is a dick move yo
Yeah I’d agree that that’s a short amount of time. I was moreso just giving my opinion on why a for profit platform may not delete anyone unless they explicitly have to or are asked to
Friendica is part of the fediverse and can talk to mastodon, lemmy etc. Plenty of users out there
Friendica is federating with Mastodon etc. and also Lemmy etc.
Friendica is starting to seem like a fantastic option to serve as a hub account to the fediverse! There’s a reason people liked Facebook at one point, and I think they’re on the right track to advancing the idea with less corrupting influences
Seems to with work with Mbin as well
…users can also use Friendica as a publishing platform to post content to Google+, Google Buzz, WordPress, Tumblr, GNU-social, and Libertree.
Well, that’s a hell of a pitch. I hope the codebase gets updated more frequently than the blurb.
I made an account there today but haven’t really figured out how it works yet.
You will get the hang of it!
Thanks! I’m sure I will, it’ll probably just take some time. :)
Which allow users to connect with others via their own Friendica server,
Wouldn’t it be helpful to state that you can also sign up at an existing instance? Or is that less encouraged for friendica? I suppose being so personal that would make sense.
Most software developers aren’t interested in being website admins for every Tom, Dick, and Harry. They’re building the software for other people to host websites, not to run a social networking site for you.
It’s not like the phpBB devs are hosting random car enthusiast websites.
Nobody said they are. However, “a great fediverse alternative to Facebook” does not mean, in the minds of most people who might read it: “you could host a website that would serve as a great fediverse alternative to Facebook.”
I think that it’s a pretty reasonable assumption that intersection of people familiar with alternativeto and the people interested in seeking Facebook alternatives on the fediverse are also more than capable of spinning up a friendica instance on an rpi
Right, but here for example, I’m not hosting anything myself. I’m participating courtesy of a generous guy with spare server resources.
