Making people aware is the most useful driving force.

Which is where stuff like Threads comes in. But at that point people are just going to use one service and the "decentralization" aspect doesn't truly exist anymore if one provider can control the majority of traffic.

We already see this to a much smaller extent on most mainstream Mastodon instances where they have gargantuan blocklists and if your friend happens to be on a banned server they're just S.O.L.

So finding a way to make fedi marketable without getting profit-motivated large companies involved is an important challenge.

Have you come across this yet?

libranet.de/objects/0b6b25a8-2…

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2025-01-19 09:16:43

Somebody created a Facebook like UI for Friendica called Bookface (expand for pics&more info)

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Credits go to @Kristi H. for creating this style. It comes in both a light and dark version (check the links for usage instructions).

If you don't want to fiddle with code and stuff, loma.ml has already installed it server-wide*, and should be available straight away for new accounts (If not, go to Settings>Display>General Theme Settings and change it from there. Or follow the guide in any of the links above).

Edit: loma seems to require invites. But, while in german, joinfriendica.de allows you to join without an invite. It also has quite a bunch of add-ons too like bluesky, tumblr, ifttt, markdown, langfilter (filters the languages in posts/comments) and curweather (shows the current weather).

Mastodon Reply-Guy #1: "Here's some non Iota-Carrageenan nasal spray."

Mastodon Reply-Guy #2: "Have you considered breathing through your mouth?"

Mastodon Reply-Guy #3: "Chat-GPT says you can snort hand-sanitizer instead."

(Judging by my experience of asking for help here.)

Seriously, good luck. I hope someone can point you to what you need.

This site claims they will have it in stock in February of this year: northernvitality.us/products/b…

Reading around online, they seem to be reputable (I got a lot of hits for it from the ZeroCovidCommunity on reddit).

Now this is interesting, thanks for sharing 😊

And I particularly like the @activitypods and Mastopods concept (basically a reimplementation of Mastodon that uses pods for user accounts). Very cool.

At first glance, it looks similar to what BlueSky is trying to do with the PDSes (personal data servers) in ATProto.

And then the file storage component looks a bit like Nextcloud, without the internal apps.

Some early thoughts: It would be interesting to see an implementation of this that can interface with both ATProto apps and ActivityPod apps.

It would also be great to have an implementation of this for Nextcloud.

@julia Don’t think so. Actually, the project is being lead by @timbl himself, the man who founded the World Wide Web.

And there’s a project to integrate #Solid with #ActivityPub known as @activitypods.

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