I keep seeing lots of people who are totally giddy about the #Fediverse, who are gushing over it, who want to promote it, who want it to spread.

And who want it to advance. To learn new abilities. To grow new features.

That's all fine and dandy.

But almost all of these people are still fully convinced that the Fediverse equals #Mastodon. And nothing else. At least not until Tumblr and P92 join the fray. Okay, maybe the #WordPress plug-in that's the talk of the town now that it has become official. Okay, maybe a few of them have also heard of #Pixelfed and/or #PeerTube because their makers are all over the Fediverse.

When these people are talking about the Fediverse, they mean Mastodon. And when they're thinking about the Fediverse, they're only thinking about Mastodon. Because that's all they know.

So these people want new cool features or even new cool use-cases in the Fediverse, stuff that Mastodon doesn't have. They want Mastodon to have it, or they want new projects to be launched that have these features.

If only they knew.

If only they knew that everything, literally everything they propose has already been done. Yes, in the Fediverse. In projects which are fully federated with Mastodon. Why don't they know? Because they've never heard of any of these projects, much less what they can do.

So they want "quote-tweets" in the Fediverse. Which means they want Mastodon to introduce them.

Tell you what: Mastodon is the only microblogging project in the Fediverse that doesn't have quotes. Not only will Eugen Rochko never introduce them, but all the other projects have them with Mastodon forks #GlitchSoc such as being the exception. #Pleroma has them. #Akkoma has them. #MissKey has them. #CalcKey has them. #FoundKey has them. #GoToSocial has them. The old heavyweights #Friendica and #Hubzilla have them, and so does Hubzilla's youngest decendant, the #Streams project. Et cetera.

You want "quote-tweets"? Switch to something that isn't Mastodon, and you've got "quote-tweets".

Or text formatting in posts like bold type, italics, underline, strikethrough, code blocks etc. Would be great if Mastodon had that, in spite of other people saying they don't want it.

Again: Pleroma already has it. Akkoma already has it. MissKey already has it. CalcKey already has it. FoundKey already hasit. GoToSocial already has it. Friendica already has it. Hubzilla already has it (look at this post at its source in a Web browser and weep). (streams) already has it. And so forth. This time, even Mastodon forks have it.

It has been done. It has been done many times. It has actually been done before Mastodon.

Next, long-form blog posting. We need something like #Medium in the Fediverse that isn't Medium itself. Mastodon's 500 characters are too few, and Twitter-like threads are inconvenient.

Except we already have that, too. #Plume and #WriteFreely are about as close to Medium as Mastodon is to Twitter, including clean and distraction-less layouts. Oh, and Hubzilla can do that, too.

By the way: Again, Mastodon is the only Fediverse project that can do microblogging that has a 500-character limit. Pleroma, Mastodon's oldest direct competitor, raised it to a default of 6,000. MissKey and its forks have 3,000 as a default. Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) have character limits of "go ahead, drop your short story in one post in its entirety," so virtually none at all. And yes, Hubzilla has long-form writing on top of that.

Speaking of Hubzilla: Most recently, there has been the idea to uncouple one's online identity from a specific instance. Your online self should no longer be firmly tied to any one server exclusively. Now, this sounds so ambitious, it might just as well be science-fiction.

What if I told you that just this very thing already exists as well?

No, really. No, I'm not making this up. But you should know by now that I'm not.

Better yet: It was conceived as early as 2011. By the guy who launched Friendica in 2010. He invented a new principle named #NomadicIdentity and a new protocol named #Zot. In its early stages already, even with no technical implementation yet, Zot was more powerful than ActivityPub is today.

In 2012, Zot became reality as the basis of a Friendica fork which later became known as #RedMatrix and, upon its 1.0 stable release in late 2015, which is still prior to Mastodon's initial release, Hubzilla. Hubzilla is still being developed and improved, and it has a fledgling but growing "successor of a successor" named (streams) which offers nomadic identity, too.

Now, what does this nomadic identity even look like? Well, not only does it let you move your channel(s) around from instance to instance with ease and, unlike on Mastodon, with absolutely everything on it. No, it also lets you have your channel on multiple instances at once. Identical clones, automagically kept in sync in real-time, all with the same identity, the same content, the same connections.

Your identity is no longer strapped down to one instance. Not only that, but your channel, your posts, your content is no longer hosted on only one server. This means that if one instance with one of your clones goes down, you still have spares.

Okay, so how about community groups/forums? That'd be cool.

Well, for one, there's #Guppe. It's basically bolted on Mastodon, and in practice, it's centralised because there's only one instance. But it's impractical to use.

Besides, this is becoming a running gag here, Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) have exactly this built-in and open for the rest of the Fediverse.

Better yet: There's also #Lemmy which amounts to a federated #Reddit or #HackerNews clone. So not only does Lemmy offer this, it specialises in it.

Hubzilla alone can provide Fediverse feature suggestions with "has been done" for years to come. Not to mention what else the Fediverse has to offer. Even if someone should want a free, non-commercial, decentralised, federated #GoodReads clone in the Fediverse, it has been done: #BookWyrm.

- Fediverse.Party - explore federated networks

Let's make social media free, federated and fun! Fediverse.Party is your guide into the world of decentralized, autonomous networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. No ads and no algorithms.

^{fediverse.party}

Yes #itWorksLikeEmail but still I really don't understand how #friendica works. For example on this thread libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1… the original post was sent to 103 remote servers, my friend digit@iviv.hu commented on it. My response to his comment was sent to 24 servers, but my response to my own comment was sent to 105 servers. I suspect him being on Diaspora* and most of my contacts being on platforms like #Mastodon than only support #ActivityPub has an influence here.

If I try to reference the same post from my Masto account, I thought it would look super weird, like I was talking to myself in a way that didn't make any sense, but I actually only see the OP https://hostux.social/@fu@libranet.de/109835482564374801 while when I search for my later comment I see it libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2… and the comment of my own I was replying to, but not the OP !Friendica Support

@Signor Amministratore My experience has been somewhat different. The reliability of #guppe does not seem constant to me. Sometimes it dropped out or a post was only shared hours later.
With a #Friendica #forum, on the other hand, I have observed a relatively constant latency of a few seconds to 1-2 minutes.
Perhaps @Μαθθίας/ξ ✔ can contribute something more competent.

In addition, a forum also offers a relatively well-structured presentation, while guppe is just a pure distribution list.

Hello !Friendica Support
I need to ask again, I did some weeks ago and hoped this problem would be fixed in the meantime.

How can I delete the deleted accounts? This looks like a data protection nightmare!

In the top you see there are 46 Deleted accounts.

Which are awaiting deletion.

Many should have been deleted months or weeks ago.

So why is this not happening?

#Friendica

@Wilhelm
Moment mal der Beitrag war nicht von mir sondern von @𝗝𝗮𝗸𝗼𝗯 :𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮: 🇦🇹 ✅

Ich habe nur meine Meinung dazu geschrieben nicht mehr und nicht weniger. Meinetwegen können die hier auf #friendica machen was sie wollen - ich nutze es so wie es ist und wenn ich der Meinung bin das mir das nicht mehr gefällt dann suche ich mir etwas anderes oder baue mir meine eigene Oberfläche dazu fertig, denn der Core ist recht gut gemacht.

Also du sprichst hier den falschen an - das mit Git ist auch nur meine Persönliche Meinung dazu und wenn die Jungs und Mädels und was sonst noch meinen die wollen auf Github bei Microsoft bleiben dann sollen sie das gerne tun - das ist mir einerlei - ich nutze (aber das ist meine Entscheidung) diese Plattform eben nicht mehr.

Also nochmal - der Threat kam von @𝗝𝗮𝗸𝗼𝗯 :𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮: 🇦🇹 ✅ - also mußt du den dazu ans Bein treten und nicht mich.

Hello !Friendica Support
many of the profile pictures look like this since the latest updates (LAMP stack and Friendica).

• What can be the reason?
• Can I force to reload the profile pictures from the remote server, re-fetch of contact data does not help.

#Friendica

In two weeks (4 & 5 February 2023) #FOSDEM will take place in #Brussels and I'm asking myself if we can have a #Friendica developers & community meeting there at some point over the weekend.

@Friendica Developers @Friendica Admins @Friendica Support

FOSDEM 2023 - Home

^fosdem.org

@heluecht
But this shouldn't effect the usage of a multi-platform client with e.g. #Friendica.

But of course, it could have an impact on the future development of such clients.

Seriously, #friendica starts to annoy me. I get random posts on my time-line.

Example included. I do not follow this account or interact with. And my network is small, for testing/evaluation purpose. They did not interact with this account either. Why do I see this?

@helpers

That's fantastic news! Welcome to the Fediverse!

And thank you for making the conscious decision to use the word #Fediverse, instead of the brand of just one particular type of Fediverse server among myriad others.

I've assembled a short list of platforms available to choose from here:

write.as/tallship/making-bette…

Particular favorites for many are those of #Friendica, #Akkoma, #Soapbox, #Hometown and #Calkey.

Don't forget to checkout other Mastodon forks like Glitch-Soc too 🙂

⛵

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@Friendica Support @Friendica Developers

Let me start with a concrete, question: Are there any efforts / plans to support the upload of videos?

And now, since I might have your attention, allow me to broaden the question to:

What is your opinion regarding "what #Friendica is / should be"?

My view / vision is heading slightly in the direction that nowadays image and video content is quite central in social networks and thus a #Fediverse application like friendica should support the multimedia aspect a bit more, if it wants to be attractive for the broad public in terms of being an alternative to commercial social networks.

Most of you might tell: "Yeah, if one prefers media centric Fediverse, then check out #pixelfed ". But I think, pixelfed is yet too much of an Instagram clone, only providing the image / video focus (which bothered me at Instagram from the very beginning not being able to have good commenting / discussion options there).

In my view, Friendica has great potential becoming a great "one fits all" application for the majority of people who like social media and the concept of the Fediverse. It has way more cool functions than #mastodon / pixelfed (which are in my opinion too close copies of Instagram and Twitter, respectively) but much simpler and convenient than Hubzilla (which I think is really great, for a computer science person, but not for the broad non-technical focussed public)

Wrapping it up: I would love to see a Friendica development towards an easier multimedia support. What are your thoughts?

Cheers

Marek

@legeneralmidi En théorie, tous les services fédiversaux sont interopérables, mais mes partages de Mastodon à #Friendica viennent sans texte.

github.com/friendica/friendica…

Friendica displays images but not text in posts from Mastodon, Misskey, perhaps others. Am I misconfigured? · Issue #12318 · friendica/friendica

Mastodon posts containing text and an image can be shared to Friendica, and the image is displayed but the text is not. Likes, shares and replies work, but could be socially risky to use as the uns...

^GitHub

@Friendica Support : Just a curious question:
I follow quite a lot of mastodon account, and in the last days, mastodon users seem to develop a passion for polls.

I noticed that I am on my friendica instance are not able to participate in these polls since the content is only included in plain text.

Does #Friendica just do not support polls, or is it only my instance / a missing add-on that prevents me to participate in polls?

#Friendica needs new contributors!

I'm not used to do this, but with the large influx of new users and node admins recently coming from #Twitter, our small team is now behind the curve for handling support requests, bug reports and bring about much-needed features.

The project is built on a #PHP/#MySQL platform, but we also need people to be able to assist others just using the software to give developers some space.

If you're willing and able to help, please follow @Friendica Support and the project on Github: github.com/friendica/friendica

Thank you!

GitHub - friendica/friendica: Friendica Communications Platform

Friendica Communications Platform. Contribute to friendica/friendica development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

Hello !Friendica Support

The menu that pops up when you click on the avatar only appears for contacts that are not on Friendica. This menu does not appear for my Friendica contacts.

Here at this Hubzilla contact appears the menu

The menu does not appear for this Friendica contact.

Friendica 'Giant Rhubarb' 2022.12-dev - 1488
PHP 8.1
Theme #frio

#friendica #bug

Hello !Friendica Support

seems the account deletion does not go through. What can I check to find the reason?

(current stable #Friendica version)

List with deleted accounts looks like this, some there for more than 2 weeks already.

Hello !Friendica Support
apparently I got 258 notifications, notifications only shown in /delegation. What is the URL to mark all of these read? I am tired of clicking on each notification in /notifications/system one by one.

#Friendica

Hello !Friendica Support why is this post "unlisted" on #Friendica, but "visible to everyone" on #Pixelfed, where I composed it from?

Link on Pixelfed:
pixel.tchncs.de/p/utzer/440241…

Link on Friendica:
social.yl.ms/display/8df4b0e8-…

utzer shared a post

Three random pics of my #cat, not #caturday, probably a repost too, but what is there better to test post as photos of #cats, there is not enough #catcontent in the #Fediverse yet!

^Pixelfed

Etwas Hoffnung gibt mir die Beobachtung, dass das Verhalten bei einem anderen RSS-Bot auf einer anderen Instanz von #Friendica so scheinbar nicht auftritt: taz@squeet.me

Dort konnte ich soeben problemlos einen Beitrag teilen.

!Friendica Support
Es gibt den Bot media_ccc_rss@libranet.de. Ich wundere mich, dass dieser fast 50 Kontaktanfragen hat, obwohl 'automatische Kontaktannahme' eingestellt ist.
Das soll so nicht sein, oder?

#Friendica

Hello !Friendica Support, @Steffen K9 🐰

When I select the "Forums" account type in the Network Stream, the forums from forum.friendi.ca are not displayed to me.

I have also created a user group "Forums" with all the forums I have subscribed to, but the forums from forum.friendi.ca are not displayed here either.

Friendica 'Siberian Iris' 2022.05-rc - 1464
#bug #friendica #forum.friendi.ca