Friendica is a great fediverse alternative to Facebook
Friendica is a great fediverse alternative to Facebook
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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).
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I'm not sure how functional it is but this is what I get when creating a post.
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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..
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Friendica is federating with Mastodon etc. and also Lemmy etc.
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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
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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."