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This is good growth for such a smaller lesser known fedi project that replaces Facebook.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    14 hours ago

    I’ve been looking for a Facebook alternative. It was either Diaspora or Friendica.

    Is Friendica more popular? What are some of the most popular/stable instances with the lowest chances of disappearing?

    • Fitik@fedia.io
      9·
      10 hours ago

      1. Diaspora* only supports diaspora protocol. It has about a few thousands MAU I’d say. If you use it you can interact with Diaspora* users and with Friendica/Hubzilla users from servers that have the diaspora addon. You can see a list of Diaspora* pods here.

      2. Friendica on the other hand natively supports ActivityPub, and has addons for BlueSky, Diaspora* and Tumblr (Not all servers have them enabled). It has 3k MAU, but you can communicate with much wider range of folk. There’s also the Friendica directory, allowing you to find interesting folk to follow much more easily. If you want a stable instance I can recommend https://friendica.world/ , it’s managed by the admins of lemmy.world .

      • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        Thanks. Yeah after further considerations I went with Friendica. And yes I created my account on Friendica.world also. I think it has a better shot at surviving. But we never know. It takes one fuck-up and everything could go to shit.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    10·
    15 hours ago

    whats the best queer friendly instance so far that actually bans/defederates from bigots?

    genuine question so i can join

  • circledot@feddit.orgEnglish
    27·
    21 hours ago

    I had a Friendica account like 10 years ago. Kinda sad to hear it’s only 2.500 active users.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      19·
      15 hours ago

      Requiring people to create an account just to see anything is a sure way to immediately drive off any potential new users.

      • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        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

  • caos@feddit.orgEnglish
    22·
    1 day ago

    Let’s hope that there are also a few organisations that run Friendica instances so that the offer becomes a bit bigger. In the last two years, everyone has been totally fixated on Mastodon and many have opened a Mastodon server without realising that there were other options.

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      92·
      15 hours ago

      And yet the dumbest name of all, the gold medalist of low-IQ nomenclature itself (Whatsapp) is literally more popular than telephones.

      • Benjaben@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 hours ago

        Have to disagree, WhatsApp is a great name, maybe the best named app of this entire generation of software.

        • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          10 hours ago

          For me it oozes cringey 2010-era hype about this newfangled buzzword “app”, which also doesn’t even rhyme with “up” except to the obviously non-native developers who clearly thought it did. Etc. We will agree to disagree!

          • Benjaben@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            6 hours ago

            Ah but even coming from a native speaker, it just flows so smoothly and feels just like saying what is arguably now the most common greeting said in English. To me it’s like the word “app” is hiding itself right in the most natural greeting, the greeting also being a symbolic distillation of the app’s purpose - there’s an elegant, simple symmetry to it in my ears, the opposite of buzzword cringe!

            But hey, opinions and assholes eh? Taste is so subjective lol. Just glad they didn’t name it iWhatsApp, then we’d agree and be big mad

    • BlemboTheThird@lemmy.caEnglish
      432·
      22 hours ago

      The only reason Facebook doesn’t sound dumb is that we’ve been saying it for like 15 years

      • ApollosArrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        12 hours ago

        I believe Facebook’s name came from an actual thing. The company was created for college students. Many campuses, would give face books that had students and professors from the universities.

      • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
        105·
        22 hours ago

        Nah, it’s a good name, has a nice ring to it and if two syllables. Friendica is hard to pronounce and sounds awkward.

        • palordrolap@fedia.io
          151·
          21 hours ago

          “Instagram” is, at least in my opinion, about as awkward as “Friendica” to say, and has millions of users. It wins marginally on spelling, but how often does the average user write or type the full name of a site anyway?

    • InformaPirata@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      12 hours ago

      I agree that it is an exceptional software, perhaps the best of the Fediverse, but it has a terrible name. The reason for this name was to mark a continuity with the first potentially federated social network, namely “identi.ca”

      Moreover, despite the name, it is not a really friendly software, but presents several ergonomic complexities. Finally, I add that when I pronounce it with my dictation system, it is always transliterated as “free handicap”, which is a very inclusive thing, but every time I have to correct it… 🤣

      This is also why I decided to call my instance with a different name such as Poliverso, Too bad that a few months later Zuckerberg decided to launch his failed Metaverso project, which is why every time I have to explain that I did not call it that to parody the Metaverso 🤬

      • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 minutes ago

        Shorten to “Frendi”, probably would be enough to get app discussed and shared more.

    • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
      111·
      21 hours ago

      Friendica was the fediverse, before there was a fediverse… And it was no different from other names of the era, like Sym.pati.co… DiGG, Reddit, etc etc.

      • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
        32·
        21 hours ago

        All of those just sound easier to pronounce, even though “sympatico” is kinda longer than necessary. My point is that almost all the Fediverse software has awkward to pronounce names which doesn’t really help with the initial adoption.

        • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
          2·
          16 hours ago

          Someone mentioned a name to designate words with two syllables as a good way to name products (Twitter, Apple, Google, Netflix), but I can’t find it back.

        • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
          3·
          21 hours ago

          I mean, it is what it is… The name is over a decade old, and was likely selected because it sounded “technical”. Friendica came about only a couple of years after facebook opened up for the wider public.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      22·
      14 hours ago

      Blame Apple. They’re the ones requiring people to get proprietary paid accounts for the privilege of distributing software for their shitty devices.