This is good growth for such a smaller lesser known fedi project that replaces Facebook.
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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?
whats the best queer friendly instance so far that actually bans/defederates from bigots?
genuine question so i can join
I had a Friendica account like 10 years ago. Kinda sad to hear it’s only 2.500 active users.
Requiring people to create an account just to see anything is a sure way to immediately drive off any potential new users.
I’d like to use it on iPhone but no app as far as I can tell
Blame Apple. They’re the ones requiring people to get proprietary paid accounts for the privilege of distributing software for their shitty devices.
Let’s hope that there are also a few organisations that run Friendica instances so that the offer becomes a bit bigger. In the last two years, everyone has been totally fixated on Mastodon and many have opened a Mastodon server without realising that there were other options.
Stop naming Fedi software with shitty names, you’ll have more people.
And yet the dumbest name of all, the gold medalist of low-IQ nomenclature itself (Whatsapp) is literally more popular than telephones.
The only reason Facebook doesn’t sound dumb is that we’ve been saying it for like 15 years
Nah, it’s a good name, has a nice ring to it and if two syllables. Friendica is hard to pronounce and sounds awkward.
Instagram.
“Instagram” is, at least in my opinion, about as awkward as “Friendica” to say, and has millions of users. It wins marginally on spelling, but how often does the average user write or type the full name of a site anyway?
I thin some nerd just wanted everyone that uses it to say “dick.”
Friendica was the fediverse, before there was a fediverse… And it was no different from other names of the era, like Sym.pati.co… DiGG, Reddit, etc etc.
All of those just sound easier to pronounce, even though “sympatico” is kinda longer than necessary. My point is that almost all the Fediverse software has awkward to pronounce names which doesn’t really help with the initial adoption.
Someone mentioned a name to designate words with two syllables as a good way to name products (Twitter, Apple, Google, Netflix), but I can’t find it back.
I mean, it is what it is… The name is over a decade old, and was likely selected because it sounded “technical”. Friendica came about only a couple of years after facebook opened up for the wider public.
Oh look, the pope of names has spoken!
Yeah lemmy is already a dumb enough name.
At some point one more is too many
wow such milestone
Only 1450 more for a round number!
You gotta start somewhere.
Yeah but Ftiendica has been around since 2010…
Didn’t know it had been around since then! 😲
I mean 2500 has a nice ring to it…
That’s almost 167 users per year!
E: almost 177 users/year using the actual amount
