I'm really excited about the potential of using Friendica to replace facebook, but atm there's an issue with friendica.world federating with other activitypub instances and I can't start trying to bring people across to here if or if they can't interact with other people in the fediverse (or bluesky via bridgy). It's making me anxious! Should I try another friendica instance? Any friendica people able to share more info about the different friendica instances?
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in reply to Max Riethmuller • • •@Max Riethmuller I can't follow bridgy either with my page. But if they have an account on Bluesky already, they can add their credentials in the settings and sync their follows and their feed to the Friendica one (essentially seeing it as another federated platform). The only requirement is for the server to have the bluesky addon installed (yours has, as I saw).
Hmm, I don't really know much about their moderation or stuff. I remember that there was a more free speech one called meld.de (my server has it blocked). But that seems to be gone now.
Generally people are chill and there's not been that much activity until now.
From a technical standpoint, if you go to
instance.address/friendicayou can see its version and the addons it has installed, as well as an about section and all the blocked servers (and the reason).Back when I chose mine, it was one of the first 5 instances. Some also offer an XMPP service with the same address as Friendica, like mine.
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in reply to Cătă • •Thanks for that, appreciate it. At the moment it's not just bridgy (I see my bluesky posts turn up here), it's federating out to any other instances (mastodon instance even). For example If I post on mastodon or bluesky, it turns up here (friendica.world) fine. ut my posts here don't turn up on mastodon. My mastodon user is following my friendica user, and vice versa. But just nothing turns up on mastodon. Apparently there is an issue they are working on atm. But I'm keen to see if there are any other friendica instances that are reliable.
The other thing that occurred to me is maybe there's a lot of new users fronting up on friendica.world, refugees from facebook or x, and they will eventually ramp up the resources and sort the problem. So it's probably just temporary. Just unfortunate timing for me. And if I'm going to try and onboard my friends to friendica, I'd be wanting to do it on an instance on which federation is working properly.
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