2w ago

Somebody created a Facebook like UI for Friendica called Bookface (expand for pics&more info)

Credits go to @kmh for creating this style. It comes in both a light and dark version (check the links for usage instructions).

If you don't want to fiddle with code and stuff, ~~loma.ml has already installed it server-wide~~, and should be available straight away for new accounts (If not, go to SettingsDisplayGeneral Theme Settings and change it from there. Or follow the guide in any of the links above).

Edit: loma seems to require invites. But, while in german, joinfriendica.de allows you to join without an invite. It also has quite a bunch of add-ons too like bluesky, tumblr, ifttt, markdown, langfilter (filters the languages in posts/comments) and curweather (shows the current weather).

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Time to switch Grandma?
She'll probably miss her friends though
- Time to do a migration tea drinking afternoon
  
  @Blaze @morrowind Unpopular opinion: Facebook until around 2016 or so (whenever it added stories for the 1st time) was the best social network in terms of UI and concept. It's just Zuck that decided to just copy everyone, every single feature, cram everything in a single website and gobble all user data (and now he's also supporting Trump and free speech). Oh, and the ads. The stupid ads getting you everywhere.
- She still sees posts from friends? It's probably mostly minions memes about immigrants by now.
  
  Remember when America was white except for the hood that we didn’t drive through.
  Minion farm remembers.
  
  I can’t believe that gif exists. I expected to find more cheesy confederate minion pics though.
  Edit:
  Oh my God I need to make a bunch of crazy dumb minion memes centered around the Pepperidge farm meme and see if people post them unironically. You know they will.
- Her friends have been dead for years. She just sees posts from an AI bot fed with their data now and thinks they are still alive.
- Anybody who gives a rat's ass about grandma wants to see her hanging out in places that aren't actively hostile to her, and will at least consider switching.
  If they insist on keeping her in places that want to see her come to a bad end just to make a buck, then we can safely stop calling or thinking of those people as friends.

Looks promising! Giving Friendica an UI of this century

This awesome because users care about only one thing : no change, ever.

finally, friendica is usable!
- The regular UI looks like out of the 10's, maybe earlier. And god that default color scheme is awful.

Awesome to see TBH. Friendica is kinda the platform that the Fedi forgot and it might be a better place if it got more love.
- yeah, looking at the federation systems it supports is insane and I really want to try it out honestly
  from Wikipedia:
  Friendica users can connect with others via their own Friendica server, but may also fully integrate contacts from other platforms including Diaspora, Pump.io, GNU social, email, Discourse[9] and more recently ActivityPub (including Mastodon, Pleroma and Pixelfed) and Bluesky[10][11] into their 'newsfeed'. In addition to these two way connections, users can also use Friendica as a publishing platform to post content to WordPress, Tumblr, Insanejournal[12] and Libertree. Posting to Google+ was also supported until that service was shut down. In addition, RSS feeds can be ingested.[13] Because users are distributed across many servers, their "addresses" consist of a username, the "@" symbol, and the domain name of the Friendica instance in the same manner email addresses are formed. Twitter support was available but was deprecated due to API changes under Elon Musk's leadership rendering it unusable.
- Maybe I should ask here. The reason I'm here is because I'm looking for answers to this. As far as the integration with Lemmy goes, how does it work? Is there a 'Friendica' instance that anyone using that platform would be posting and interacting from? And in that case, does it play nicely with the other instances?
  I'm pretty new here, probably moving to another instance at some point anyway. And I've been thinking of looking into these multi purpose platforms that play nicely with others. Because why not have more features and tools to play with, even if I don't use half of them. It might also fill in nicely for features that are missing here like multicommunities and posting to your own profile.
  Also heard of mbin, although an in app search for something like "mbin" seems pretty useless here.
  
  @Zero22xx There are multiple Friendica instances. You can check them in the Friendica Directory (in the servers section) or other more global lists of Fediverse servers like the-federation.info, FediDB etc. Friendica has groups too, but besides the !helpers@forum.friendi.ca (or probably even the !fediversenews@venera.social one) they're pretty much lacking activity (you're still free to post anyway, there are plenty of them).
  If you need some help, you can also post on the former one by creating a regular post and mentioning the group with "!" or "@". I have also created a megathread with various resources and a small Q&A (it's actually vice-versa tbh, since the Q&A took the most space on it, but I digress) in order to get yourself started: https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2167-82af-600d-9ea129892452
  @maegul
  
  I think lemmy is a bit of the odd one out, so far i can interact between mastodon and pixelfed ok, and I can post from mastodon to lemmy, but in lemmy I can't really interact with mastodon or pixelfed.
  If you want a lot more in on profile I'd check out mastodon, I just don't really get the Twitter style so I never know how to really use it for memes

Now the hard part is to get Friendica to integrate it in its base code, and somehow prompt users upon sign-up to choose their user interface !
I understand though that friendica devs might be reluctant to integrate it if they can't get assurances that this UI project will be maintained into the future.
- @anticurrent @petrescatraian@libranet.de Fortunately, Friendica is flexible enough. All servers can set a default theme, and much of what people dislike about Friendica can just be fixed by swapping the Frio theme (which is default to many of the servers) with this one. In fact, there's already a server who did just that: ~~loma.ml~~ joinfriendica.de currently works without invites.
  Here's how it's local feed looks like right now

The rounded corners on the "set title" input box (in contrast to the other input fields) bothers me more than it should...
- @thebustinator Guess it's the author is still working on it, polishing it out, but there's a start

Just wish there was an iOS app…
- The MAU is growing, it’s likely one developer will be inspired to make one.
- It's compatible with the Mastodon API, so some of the apps work for it. I was talking to the developer of an iOS Mastodon the other day and they are off checking compatibility at the moment.
  edit: I also started a thread on people's experience with apps on !friendica@lemmy.ca.
- There's Relatica, it's in active development, and it's multiplatform including IOS, but it's in beta right now
  
  @Fitik @theboxhead Yep. Look out for updates on Relatica if you're on iOS

Loma.ml is invite only btw

yeah, that does resemble facebook alot. without the bloat, that is.

Wasn’t there a show with “bookface”? At first I was thinking the remake of Arrested Development, but that was Faceblock.
- You might be thinking of "FriendFace" from IT Crowd, that was my initial thought when I saw this
  
  Nah, I didn’t watch IT Crowd. Apparently there’s this https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bookface but that’s not what I was thinking of either. Oh well.
- On an episode of Castle, the daughter character was introducing the mother character to the internet, and the mother character says "I've now got a page on MyFace."
- @jaybone Lol!

Just don’t follow much on Friendica due to a lack of iOS app. And only had one for android. For it to really take off, we need app development as well. This is a great step though as an easy UI will promote use.
- There’s an in-dev app called Relatica for iOS that you can get TestFlight access to. It’s quite good!
  https://gitlab.com/mysocialportal/relatica
  
  That’s great news! Will check it out.
- Yeah I would set it up for my family today if there was an iOS app. How many years has it been out and still no app?
  
  @scrubbles What do you see as the advantages of an app over a web app?
  @hollerpixie

This is honestly so nice, every "clone" should have a similar interface for ppl swapping to make it easier, I love customization and different interfaces but I was only able to transition to lemmy because of its similarities to reddit, specifically the third party apps

loma.ml has already installed it server-wide
I can't see anything without an account and I can't create an account without an invitation code.

Looks cool, but maybe not put (what could be easily seen as) a racist charicature as a top example.
- @KurtVonnegut What do you mean?

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