♇ ✱ [phle]

2025-01-19 21:45:00

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.

#federation #fediverse #socialnetworks #socialnetwork