There are many #Friendica fans, and for good reason. Once you get past the learning curve from the difficult UI, you get to appreciate the extra benefits of built-in #Bluesky, #Lemmy/#Piefed/#MBIN, #Tumblr, and #RSS feed integration. It also has #Diasporia integration and some other protocol integrations. Of course, it’s also a #Mastodon alternative.
Nobody ever mentions Friendica as being a #Threadiverse app, but it has Groups, which is built-in Threadiverse capability. If you follow a Community on Lemmy/Piefed/MBIN, for example, it gets categorized as a group and is placed into a separate section for the groups you are part of. Then you can read and post in the Group (Community/Magazine) just like you would on a Threadiverse application. You can also create public and private groups.
And there is no need to use a Bluesky bridge if the Friendica instance you are on has the integration turned on.
Here’s an excellent 5-minute video showing Friendica created by @earthman@my-place.social for those interested in seeing how it works.
@Jerry Interesting, but the video shows a completely different way of using #Friendica than I use it.
This is mainly about the newsfeeds, that - which is one speciality of Friendica - can integrate many different protocols, so that there are connections not only to the Fediverse in the narrower sense (= Activity Pub), but also to Bluesky, Tumblr, Threads, Diaspora etc.In contrast, I am only interested in the Fediverse connections (in the broader sense, i.e. including Diaspora).
The other side (which I find more interesting) is Friendica’s advantages, how you can actively interact from Friendica and how you can create your own content, and structure received content + , the good way Fediverse content is displayed,.
Check out !friendica@lemmy.ca too!
Nice
Does anyone have experience using Friendica primarily as an RSS reader? Could it function as an alternative to web-based RSS readers like Feedly?
I don’t use Friendica as a feed reader, but I have heard from many people who have had positive experiences with it and enjoy using it.
This contains also an experience report about it: The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 3: Friendica)
What in the hashtags is going on here?
Nobody ever mentions Friendica as being a #Threadiverse app
Probably because the second sentence of your own post intending to promote it was an immediate concession that the UI sucks. “It’s great once you get past how bad it is” isn’t a great pitch.
I’m not trying to sell it. It is what it is. I’m just providing information about Friendica for those interested. I know I was always curious about it.
My biggest issue with Friendica is that the very top thing I want social media for is to share photos and videos in a private way with friends and family. Of you have to upload your video to YouTube before posting the URLthen that is a terrible experience.
Facebook lets you just grab your photos and vidros and upload them to your post. It automatically converts them from the 200MB+ per minute file your phone made into a 40MB per minute file, so people watching on their phones don’t chew through their data allowance or be unable to play it due to slow internet. It shows the photos in a seamless galley.
I would be willing to put up with almost any other issues if this part was a seamless and user friendly experience, of which no self-hosted Facebook replacement (federated or not) that I have seen can do.
What the Hell is a Threadiverse? Maybe we don’t give a corporate entity branding and credit for a network we built well before they ever came along.
Ah; I rescind my comments and apologize. I can see the reasoning.
What corporate entity is supposed to own the term “threadiverse”? It’s simply a portmanteau of fediverse and thread.
Jerry already caught me up.
To those who haven’t heard it before, it sounds like a way to note that Threads can interope with the Fediverse, now (I can see people who were super excited about Meta joining doing that).
Maybe it being capitalized also made it the first thing my brain jumped to.
In any case, I was mistaken and just hadn’t heard of the term before; just ignore my original comments, basically: they’re wrong.
Oh, I didn’t even think of Metas Threads. That is annoying.
@NineMileTower@lemmy.world you were looking for something like this IIRC
If you want to share something with someone, share it with them. Tagging them instead of sharing the content in a normal way spams the whole Lemmy discussion with irrelevant comments.
It was the first comment of the thread, to encourage discussion. If there’s something Lemmy could use more of, it’s a bit more discussion rather than fewer comments
