Cool. Any words of wisdom on selecting an instance?
I'd also be curious to know your reasons for maintaining both Mastodon and Friendica accounts. I.e., what does Mastodon have going for it that Friendica doesn't? Or is it more a case of just maintaining separate instance identities as many do with different Mastodon instances?
@dynamic yes thing is Mastodon is only short text and readers have to click on my website link to read the fuller comments etc. Following my Friendica feed is the full text. Friendica also has integrations outside of just ActivityPub.
But I did videos about each platform, so used them extensively for research. I auto post though from my WP blog to all networks.
On instances, see what they enable or not eg. RSS posting, space limits, etc.
@dynamic nope they are optional extension or modules that admins choose to activate. Some can cause a lot of traffic, or others can be abused by spam bots, etc. So in my case I specifically looked for RSS enabled. But it is something to just compare between instances.
That's really useful to know. One thing I've been seeing as I look at these Friendica instances is that they don't seem to have as much documentation of underlying values as Mastodon instances do. Do you have any tips on where to look to find out this kind of information on what modules are enabled?
@dynamic you can try https://dir.friendica.social/servers. If you visit the server instance just click on the i for information button, usually at top right of screen and it has a list of installed addons/apps shown - mine shows at https://squeet.me/friendica. See RSS not listed separately.
I followed my RSS feed as a contact, and then chose to mirror its posts as my own feed. That's how I'm getting Friendica to show my posts in full text.
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