I guess now that this #Friendica instance is actually working, I'd better do an #introduction. I never did one when I created my #Mastodon account (at @gmc@chasmcity.net).
I'm a retired #hacker, #scifi #author, #software architect working for a silicon manufacturer, #pinball enthusiast, #RetroComputing #nerd, #SelfHosting zealot, #gay, card-carrying #adhd (#add) member and #migraine warrior. I live in #Sweden, but am originally from #TheNetherlands. I love #nature, #snow, the #cat and the #dog.
I'm not sure how I will use this Friendica account, since I also have the Mastodon account. We'll see. There's things I like about Friendica (especially how easy it is to follow threads) as well as Mastodon (especially how easy it is to filter and block to protect my #MentalHealth). I might set up some scripts to synchronise followers or some such, or maybe not and cultivate a different vibe on both accounts. Who knows.
I'll be trying on some other #SelfHosting #Fediverse servers as well.
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in reply to gmc • • •I ever heard that Friendica is quite similar with Facebook. Are there many people active on the platform?
I am genuinely curious. I only verse on Mastodon. Ever tried Pixelfed & Lemmy for short period of time.
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in reply to restorante • • •I'm not overly familiar with facebook myself, but friendica links to the entire fediverse, and there are many people on the fediverse as a whole 😀
There's a friendica user directory at dir.friendica.social/people, and it lists about 13340 people. But I'm sure not everyone chooses to be listed there.
What I like about friendica is that when I respond to a thread, it will keep popping up if someone else responds to it as well, which makes for more lively interaction I believe. On Mastodon, I find that I respond to a thread but then quickly forget about it, because if someone else replies to the same thread (without explicitly mentioning me), there is nothing in Mastodon to tell me that there is activity on that thread (unless I missed something of course 😀 ).
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in reply to restorante • •I share the experience of @gmc that the interaction is more in-depth by design in #Friendica. The channel feature also helps a lot with this. My default channel sorts the posts on latest activity. This helps me to focus on discussions that I'm following. This differs from Mastodon where the timeline is just a timeline without many options to sort or filter. This can get overwhelming fast if you follow a lot of people.
BTW: If you want Friendica to look like FB that's possible either on server side or in your own browser. I like the dark Frio theme better (very discrete) but each its own.
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in reply to gmc • •Been here a scant month myself, but can tell you that it is pleasant to be here. The big difference with the ' big social media ' is that all noses are pretty much in the same direction here.
That alone makes it worthwhile being here.
Wish you good luck, but above all have fun exploring here!
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in reply to gmc • • •I don't think any add-on will be able to filter posts shown in an app, simply because the hooks for filtering offered by friendica to addons only acts on the web-ui, not the API.
I'm trying out user channels, but not quite getting them yet. It seems I need to provide tags for inclusion of posts in the channel, whereas I'd like to just have a channel with posts from those I follow, but with any post with a certain tag or keyword filtered out. Is that possible, do you know?
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in reply to Greenpepper • • •Yeah, that's the thing. I don't want to have to *include* tags. I just want to be able to *exclude* certain tags and keywords.
I guess I'll not use an app for now, just access friendica through the web interface. A bit clunky, but it'll do.
Maybe I'll implement filtering on the API level some time, but I'd need to dig into the development model and desirability of such a feature first.
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