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2025-01-19 11:18:18

Lamaskier.wtf

Lamaskier@mograph.social

Where should I move my family from #facebook ? To #diaspora or to #friendica ? Why?

2025-01-19 17:46:33

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Lamaskier.wtf You can forget diaspora* for three reasons.

One, it doesn't support ActivityPub and never will. That's a design decision.
Two, it can't hold a candle to any Facebook alternative with ActivityPub.
Three, it's withering away, if not outright dying. A couple days before New Year's Eve, several big pods shut down. According to one source, diaspora* lost more than half its users within some three days. And in a few days, another big pod, diasp.org, will disappear.

Notice that I've written, "any Facebook alternative with ActivityPub." There's more than one. There's more than Friendica. It's just that most Fediverse users only know Friendica by name from hearsay and everything else not at all.

So without further ado:

Would you like security and privacy by means of an advanced, fine-grained permissions system?
Does resiliance against instance shutdown in the shape of nomadic identity sound good to you?
Don't you mind a bit more of a learning curve?
Don't your family members mind using something via its Web interface, and can they (or can you) install a progressive Web app on their phones?

If so, look past Friendica and straight at the thing colloquially called (streams) (code repository instead of a website).

It's actually a fork of a fork of three forks of a fork (of a fork) of a fork of Friendica, and all forks in this line are by the same creator as Friendica itself who still maintains (streams).

(streams) offers just about everything that Friendica offers and then some on top (like polls). The only thing that's missing is Friendica's vast connection and federation capability beyond the Fediverse. Still, (streams) can connect to everything in the Fediverse like Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Friendica, Hubzilla, Misskey, Sharkey, Iceshrimp, Lemmy, Mbin, PieFed etc. etc.

If you're interested, don't go looking for (streams) instances. It's absent from the Fediverse Observer, it's absent from the FediDB, and that's fully intentional. But there are currently two open-registration (streams) instances.

The one in North America is Rumbly in the USA, run by @Waitman Gobble. The one in Europe is Nomád in Hungary, run by the German admin @Der Pepe (nomád) ⁂ ⚝ (more active as @Der Pepe (Hubzilla) ⁂ ⚝) who also speaks English.

If you need a support forum, follow @Streams with your Mastodon account, wait until it follows you back, and then ask away. Don't forget to mention it.

Only if at least some of your family members absolutely cannot live without a native mobile phone app, I'd suggest Friendica. Even then, there are only Android apps geared towards Friendica. The only iOS app for Friendica, Relatica, is in closed beta, and you have to apply for it.

In general, if you're on an iPhone, and you want to leave Facebook for the Fediverse, you've got three options:

Friendica, Hubzilla or (streams) + the Web interface (either in a browser or as a PWA)
Friendica + apply for the Relatica beta
Friendica + a Mastodon app straight from the App Store that doesn't even cover 20% of Friendica's features

If you need help with Friendica, there's a discussion group for that, too: @Friendica Support.

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