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2025-01-30 20:13:35

Tiempo@todon.eu

[EN]
Hey! I'm trying to bring some people to the fediverse and I want to know a little bit more about Friendica. What can you tell me about nodes/servers/instances in there?

Boosts would be great!

[ESP]
Oigan! Estoy tratando de traerme a algunas perdonas al Fediverdo y quisiera saber un poquito más acerca de Friendica. Qué me pueden contar de los nodos/servidores/instancias de por allá?

Se agradecen los retooteos!

#friendica #fediverse

2025-01-30 22:24:59

Greenpepper

greenpepper@friendica.world

IMO Friendica is more for power users so for people new to the Fediverse it can be overwhelming. However once they'll overcome this hurdle it will show it's power as a great social media hub. I suggest to first try several instances and: agree with the policy, terms of service; who is behind it; test for stability, speed; being able to communicate with the admin. Also there is a difference in functionality between instances I suppose mainly due to difference in add-ons or limitation in protocols. This can be important

I'm currently on friendica.world and squeet.me and I like them both. The latter unfortunately doesn't take new people onboard. It seems that friendica.world does not support the diaspora* protocol. So if that's important to you...

https://dir.friendica.social/servers

2025-01-31 00:25:44

ㄒ丨乇爪卩ㄖ :anarchism: :heart_bi:

Tiempo@todon.eu

@greenpepper thanks!!

Is it true that is something closer to FB? And second, what is the difference between using or not the diaspora protocol?

2025-01-31 09:23:14

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Tiempo :anarchoheart3: ♾️ :heart_bi: ?? @Greenpepper It's significantly closer to Facebook than Mastodon, and it's much more powerful than Mastodon.

I've made a number of tables that compare Mastodon, Friendica, Hubzilla (a fork of Friendica from 2012/2015 by Friendica's own creator) and (streams) (a fork of a fork of three forks of a fork (of a fork?) of Hubzilla from 2021 by the same creator again) with each other. You can find them here.

The diaspora* protocol only matters if either you already know people who have already been on diaspora* for a while, or you know people who have just recently moved from Facebook to diaspora* while not knowing a thing about it, or you know people who want to move from Facebook to diaspora* rather than Friendica.

diaspora* is another Facebook alternative that is a few months younger than Friendica, also from 2010. While Friendica had next to zero publicity before this month, diaspora* was hyped up by tech media and even mainstream mass media back in 2010 before it was even made. The creators asked for $12,000 of crowdfunding to develop diaspora* in summer 2010. They ended up receiving over $200,000 because so many people wanted them to make a free, open-source, non-corporate, non-spying-on-you-and-selling-your-data "Facebook killer".

However, while diaspora* may have a beautiful UI, it's lack-lustre in features. When Friendica was launched in July, 2010, under the name of Mistpark, it was already more powerful by magnitudes than diaspora* is today.

Also, diaspora* only supports its own protocol. The developers staunchly refuse to include ActivityPub. One of them justified this decision because those who implement ActivityPub don't "implement ActivityPub", they "implement Mastodon". The only Fediverse projects that can communicate both via ActivityPub and with diaspora* are Friendica, Hubzilla and Socialhome, all profiting from Friendica's work of 2010-2011.

Lastly, diaspora* is withering away. Shortly before New Year's Eve 2024, three major pods shut down. According to one statistics site, more than half of all diaspora* accounts disappeared within three days. For April 1st, the shutdown of diasp.org, one of the biggest and most important pods, has been announced.

The only people who join diaspora* now want to escape Facebook, but they don't know a thing about the alternatives except for the names. And they only know the names from Mastodon users who, in turn, only know the names, too, and nothing else about them. It's all hearsay in which not even a single actual current or former diaspora* or Friendica user has ever been involved.

In practice, the diaspora* protocol only means that you can connect to diaspora* users (and Hubzilla users who have decided to keep ActivityPub switched off to keep Mastodon out and switch the diaspora* protocol on to be able to connect to certain Friendica users and maybe a few on actual diaspora*). Nothing else.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Facebook #FacebookAlternative #diaspora* #Friendica