A week ago, I got myself a #Friendica account, and I've been #exploring it since then. My plan is to leave Facebook a bit later this year (not just "pause", or "visit sparsely", as I've done for the last couple of years), and I've made an online event where I've invited all of my Facebook acquaintances. A small subset might be interested in exploring additional platforms.
Friendica has its advantages, but so do diaspora*.
Friendica has a #Calendar function, kind of like Facebook's #Events. In my opinion, that's the only thing "missing" on Diaspora (or does it exist, and I'm the one who have missed it?), and acquiring that, it might help me move some people with me (even if they don't leave Facebook, it would be nice to still have some place to interact with them, and I think they too should explore other options).
Diaspora auto-embeds / gives a preview of links. As far as I've noticed, Friendica does not. Diaspora auto-collapses long posts. As far as I've noticed, Friendica does not.
Then again, posts (and comments) are editable on Friendica. Editing posts and/or comments are not possible on diaspora* (or were they for a while? ... can't remember). There are advantages of both approaches.
My posts on diaspora* seem to #federate fine to Friendica, but (my) posts on Friendica seem to take their time (none has federated in that direction as of yet). Then again, the admin on the Friendica instance I'm on posted about a backlog, so that may flow better with time?
I'm also considering whether to get a #Mastodon account. I had Twitter, but stopped using it, and then (quite recently) finally deleted my account.
I have no plans to leave diaspora*, but as things are at the moment, I think it will be easier to "lure" people over to Friendica or Mastodon (than to diaspora*), so if they're "there" — or whichever non-Meta platform they chose — I think I would like to have profiles there as well.
Friendica Tutorial 2 of 6: Friendica as a One Stop Social Media Hub. Ver 2023.12
Since the internet was severely lacking it, This is a comprehensive tutorial on how you can do pretty much anything in friendica that you can on facebook. This episode covers how how to join friendica, how to customize your profile, how to make a post, and join a group. PS this is an atheist/liberal/leftish channel and my opinions and beliefs are not that of the friendica organization, so please do not let any of the examples I use have any impact on whether or not you decide to use the site.
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phle
in reply to phle • •Coming from diaspora*, I notice that Friendica
- doesn't seem to embed link previews
- also doesn't "collapse" long posts
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skribe
in reply to phle • •phle
in reply to skribe • •Yes!
I actually wrote a longer thing about it (clicky-link), from my diaspora* account.
All platforms have their pros and cons ... for better or for worse. 🤷♀️
♇ ✱ [phle]
2025-01-19 21:45:00
Yes!
I actually wrote a longer thing about it (clicky-link), from my diaspora* account.
All platforms have their pros and cons ... for better or for worse. 🤷♀️
♇ ✱ [phle]
2025-01-19 21:45:00
phle
in reply to phle • •phle
in reply to phle • •and, as I commented over on my diasp.-post:
Now, let's see if using BBCode, instead of just throwing in the link "as text", makes that Ylvis link embedded:
YouTube link: Ylvis - "The Cabin"
(edit) Hm, no. But the peerview link was. But I posted that ahead of it. I'll try it in another comment.
and, as I commented over on my diasp.-post:
Now, let's see if using BBCode, instead of just throwing in the link "as text", makes that Ylvis link embedded:
YouTube link: Ylvis - "The Cabin"
(edit) Hm, no. But the peerview link was. But I posted that ahead of it. I'll try it in another comment.
Anubis2814
2024-03-24 18:56:29
phle
in reply to phle • •Now, then?
YouTube link: Ylvis - "The Cabin"
This, then?
youtube.com/watch?v=ua1FAlHt_Y…
(via peertube.stream/w/p/4K4MWYXMEY… )
Hm ...