Friendica Has Reached 2,646 Monthly Active Users
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This is good growth for such a smaller lesser known fedi project that replaces Facebook.
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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.
Isn't that what you want for a Facebook replacement though?
I guess being able to browse public profiles and posts would be good, but if it's like Facebook then wouldn't most people be using their real names and posting about semi-personal IRL stuff?
You'd want that stuff to only show for your friends, and maybe friends of friends
I mean you could use totally fake and made up profiles, I just want to see what the UI looks like and maybe literally anything about the site and how it works?
It happens the same on Facebook, so that's not a problem for a Facebook alternative
If your bar for a good site is "it's as good as Facebook", you should raise your standards.
It is a Facebook alternative, after all. But now that you're speaking, I think it would work if a link to the community page would be visible straight from the login page. You can still see the public feed as of speaking, but you have to go to instance.address/community to see it.
Edit: seems like this is not a universal issue with Friendica, but rather just something to add to the Frio theme which is the default for the majority of the instances. For example, where the Vier theme is used by default, there is a community button available: social.outsourcedmath.com/ is one example.
Hopefully someone does a more modern theme that has this button too.
It is a Facebook alternative
Yes, alternative. Why would you want an alternative? Because you're unhappy with it.
You can still see the public feed as of speaking, but you have to go to instance.address/community to see it.
That's great except there's no way to know that by the home page.
I did not receive your response in time, that's why I edited my previous comment. Sorry about that.
Imo, I'm more concerned about Facebook's data hoarding practices and its future moderation practices than whether it has a public feed or not. LinkedIn and VK (probably G+ either, can't remember) - other two social networks that are more similar to Facebook in UI - do not have publicly accessible feeds either on their home pages, yet they still managed to get plenty of users. Probably no longer still relevant, but diaspora is also featured as the 1st alternative to Facebook. Yet if you go to any diaspora server, say diaspora-fr.org/, there's no way to access a public feed either.
Some Friendica servers (probably some Mastodon servers too) are also actively blocking their local feeds from unlogged users, so that's also an aspect to keep in mind.
I understand that for some people (I simply don't care that much about this aspect, but I understand you do), the lack of a public feed might be an impediment, but I think it's way less harmful than other things that Meta does to its users.
my 2c
