We're continuing investigation to the performance issues, you can follow and react here: https://lemmy.world/c/friendicaworld

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

Nah, I didn’t watch IT Crowd. Apparently there’s this knowyourmeme.com/memes/bookfac… but that’s not what I was thinking of either. Oh well.

Bookface

Bookface is a participatory photo game in which people place a book cover in front of one's face, revealing a "hybrid face" of the subject and the image on the cover of the book.
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Secret Music

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.

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Secret Music

Made a quick account there to check things out and not sure if it's entirely the right fit for the particular use case I had in mind. It's very much inspired by Facebook obviously, which I was expecting but from what I can tell from a quick look, not the kind of Lemmy integration I was hoping for or imagining.

I'm going to keep an eye on this place though, so that I can start encouraging friends and family to join once it's easy and attractive (in terms of content) for anyone to join.

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Secret Music

Basically I would be spending much more time in Lemmy communities, and I thought Friendica could be something extra on top to supplement it.

So I would like to be able to browse instances and communities and choose what I want to see and participate in. Either by subscribing or curating a feed or two. I don't see an obvious way to do this from Friendica yet. It seems like here I need to scroll through a pre existing feed and curate it from there.

But please bear in mind, I haven't explored extensively yet or read the link you shared earlier, although I have saved that post so that I can get back to it later in my day.

And another small thing for me (that can be easily fixed by styles and apps) is no apparent dark mode.

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Cătă

Friendica is more personal so to say... idk how to put it. It is more like Facebook 😁 You'll likely find your way.

And another small thing for me (that can be easily fixed by styles and apps) is no apparent dark mode.


Go to Settings>Display>Custom theme settings, then click the drop-down on appearance (should be the second item).

If you're using the Vier theme instead of Frio, scroll down to Theme settings and select the drop down next to "set style".

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Secret Music

Apologies for the second reply. Just wanted to say that I checked out mbin and it's probably more up my alley personally.

But, I still have a barely used Facebook account because a lot of people in my country are still on it. And I'm going to see if the rumours are true and try to spread the news about Friendica there, hopefully without my post getting removed or account being banned.

And if / when people from there give Friendica a shot, then I'll give it a proper shot too with them. It'll just be used for different things than what I use Lemmy for.

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Jumuta

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.
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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.
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Zagorath

Google+ was better. The concept of "circles" being the primary way of interacting with people was ingenious and far better represents how real people interact. My fencing friends are not the same as my RPG friends who are not the same as my family.

Facebook adopted this with "lists", but they're not treated as the core part of the experience that G+'s Circles were, so they don't get used.

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theangryseal

Damn. I can’t imagine having enough people in my life to make lists.

There’s something wrong with me though. I’ve spent most of my life alone and my biggest fear has always been centered around being asked to leave my space.

Of course when you get older that gets harder. I’m lucky at the moment. I’m a stay at home dad who goes to spend time working on various projects with my uncle when I’m free.

If he died tonight I’d have no social life at all.

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theangryseal

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.

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@HootinNHollerin I just noticed. Bummer. It's still cool to see it as a proof of concept, though (loma is one of the instances that have been online for a long time, so it's great they are also working on it). They also shared it on GitHub: github.com/loma-one/friendica_…

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friendica_Template/bookface at main · loma-one/friendica_Template

Friendica Template WIP (not for productive use) . Contribute to loma-one/friendica_Template development by creating an account on GitHub.
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