Fediverse

Time to do a migration tea drinking afternoon

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.

She still sees posts from friends? It's probably mostly minions memes about immigrants by now.

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.

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

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.

@thebustinator Guess it's the author is still working on it, polishing it out, but there's a start

@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

Here's how it's local feed looks like right now

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."

You might be thinking of "FriendFace" from IT Crowd, that was my initial thought when I saw this

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

The MAU is growing, it’s likely one developer will be inspired to make one.

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

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?