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This is my first Friendica post. I'm currently just trying to figure out the basics of the platform (and also trying to determine why on my home page "No contacts" is listed, despite having at least one - anyone have any ideas?)
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Erik Hofmeister
in reply to Ken B • •Ken B
in reply to Erik Hofmeister • •Ken B
in reply to Erik Hofmeister • •Anyway, it looks like my contacts are now showing up (although it's still jacked up - it says "3 contacts" but shows the profile pics of my four contacts. It looks like the .jpg screencap I took is showing up, but not the originals, which were .pngs. I'm going to try uploading both file types
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John St.Clair
in reply to Ken B • • •As a decentralized platform, near as I can tell there is a lag before changes and updates appear. I’m running my profile from my-place.social, the rest of you are on Friendica-world. I expect lag between me and the rest of you. I’d think that those of you on the same server would have much quicker updates.
I’m going to stay on my server for a while, but I suspect I’ll switch to the server my friends are using soon.
Ken B
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in reply to Ken B • •FFS. Both showed up, but it inserted them into the middle of my text rather than at the end.
So far I'm not real impressed with the platform's functionality, but I'm going to give it a week.
I can't see this every replacing Facebook though. I hate Facebook, but there aren't any notable barriers to entry, and posting at least works. If I'm having this much trouble with Friendica, I can't see anyone who isn't tech savvy ever using it.
I'm going to add another random picture to this reply to see where exactly it shows up.
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Ken B
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in reply to Sarah Peck 👥 • •Ken: This platform kind of sucks. A paper airplane icon? WTF?
Sarah: It was built by nerds for free in their spare time!
Ken: It was *kind of* built by nerds for free in their spare time.
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in reply to Ken B • • •Eloiwyn
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in reply to Eloiwyn • •I think you just go their profile and click "follow."
Then you get "Awaiting connection acknowledgement" until, uh, the connection is "acknowledged" I guess?
Not sure why this couldn't be "add friend" or something else a bit more intuitive.
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Eloiwyn
in reply to Ken B • •Ken B
in reply to Eloiwyn • •This is what I see when I visit someone's profile:
(In this case the option is "unfollow" since I've already followed you.)
John St.Clair
in reply to Ken B • • •@Ken B - you and I are on the web interface. Kristi is using the android app and it’s different.
I think this has potential but it’s not ready for prime time yet.
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