Dopo la Dunkerque degli esuli di Twitter approdati su Mastodon, potrebbe esserci una migrazione da Reddit verso Lemmy. E la nostra feddit ha avuto in una sola mattinata le iscrizioni di una settimana!
Chiaramente questo è un ulteriore segnale del fatto che le grandi piattaforme centralizzate, Twitter per prima, non trovando più soldi facili dai grandi investitori tecnologici, stanno iniziando non più solo a mungere i dati personali dei propri utenti, ma hanno iniziato a tosarli e a taglieggiare chiunque graviti intorno al loro business.
Per fortuna però gli utenti stanno iniziando a comprendere che l'atmosfera si sta facendo sempre più asfittica.
Oggi, per esempio, l'istanza italiana feddit.it basata su Lemmy, un'alternativa a Reddit interoperabile con il Fediverso, ha avuto in una sola mattinata più iscrizioni rispetto a quelle avute in un'intera settimana!
La stessa cosa sta avvenendo all'istanza lemmy.ml, la più grande del Fediverso: uno dei suoi fondatori (nonché sviluppatore dello stesso Lemmy) ha dichiarato che:
In effetti la libertà che consente una piattaforma come Lemmy. è impensabile con qualsiasi piattaforma centralizzata!
E questo vale per altri "link aggregator" federat, tutti interoperabili, come KBin o Lotide, oltre che per la stessa #Friendica, l'alternativa del Fediverso a Facebook, da cui sto scrivendo questo post, leggibile non solo su Lemmy ma da tutti gli utenti Mastodon.
Nei prossimi giorni, vi terremo aggiornati su tutte le eventuali novità...
Not the first huge player clamping down on it's API killing off 3rd party apps and burning bridges. This seems to be the nature of silos (or so called walled gardens).
If only there would be a solution to this dilemma. Something interoperable. Ideally without an API at all.
Thanks @nev. Entering an image description on #Friendica is not easy. I could only do this manually as an attached image. But then the picture would be at the bottom.
Bildbeschreibung: Ein Trampolin auf einem eingezäunten Feld, um das sich zahlreiche rotbraune und weiße Hühner versammelt haben und darauf sitzen.
von den Bots von #FediNINA kann ich keine Beiträge auf #Friendica finden.
Bedeutet dass, das ich auch keine Beiträge sehen werde, wenn diese etwas veröffentlichen?
Konkret geht es um die Orte die hier aufgelistet sind: meta.prepedia.org/wiki/FediNIN…
Join the JoinFediverseWiki - "eine Enzyklopädie über das Fediverse"
Das Wiki bietet schon umfangreiche Informationen über das Fediverse und dessen diverse Plattformen. Es enthält jedoch auch noch einige Lücken, die darauf warten, von fleißigen Fedizens gestopft zu werden.
Is there someone who can help me about #friendica?
I'm kinda hopeless 🌚
Basically I can't open the settings of a forum account of mine on venera.social, all I get is a "Forbidden" alert. The thing is Friendica is a bit weird to me so I literally don't know how to reach the admins
I just had a bit of a look at kbin.social and I have to say, kbin looks really impressive!
If you've never heard of kbin, it's a fediverse platform specifically focusing on groups. Broadly speaking, similar to lemmy, the goal is to create a fediverse take on the reddit experience. However, kbin also integrates fediverse groups like gup.pe, chirp and friendica groups, and that is a killer feature as far as I'm concerned!
We've been running a lemmy instance for a few months now, but it might be time to look at spinning up our own kbin instance too!
Point blank, a mass Fediblock isn't going to work with #Meta.
The cold truth is that people will use #Barcelona whether it federates or not. Even if it fails, Barcelona will probably have more users out of the gate than almost every project save Mastodon. Hell, it will probably eclipse #Bluesky too.
And even if you convince every server to defederate -- which you won't -- this will not be a PR coup for the Fediverse. Newspaper headlines won't blare "Fediverse successfully resists Meta." Instead, they will probably follow @gruber take with "Open source zealots complain that an open protocol is open."
Again, as I've said countless times, I'm not saying you should federate with Barcelona or any Meta-owned property. If you want, defederate. The joy of the Fediverse is freedom of association.
But a mass Fediblock doesn't solve a few important problems with Meta, and perhaps makes them worse.
The most critical problem is that Meta users need to migrate away from Meta-owned social networks. Until now, a migration path has simply been unfeasible to most. But when Barcelona gets launched, it is possible that many of them will become aware of a greater Fediverse.
How to build that awareness? By interacting with them through services beyond Barcelona.
This approach works. I've interacted with many Mastodon users through services beyond Mastodon, and this has resulted in adoption of other Fediverse software. #Calckey is a case in point.
However, there's a bigger problem concerning Meta: Fediverse replacements for Meta-owned social networks aren't getting mass adoption. And it's not because these apps aren't good.
#Pixelfed is an #Instagram replacement. It is also one of the slickest apps on the Fediverse. Yet, Pixelfed only has 150,000 registered accounts.
#Friendica is a #Facebook replacement. It's been around since 2010. It is a mature product that does many things very well, but Friendica only has 17,000 registered accounts.
The software is great but we are failing to effectively market the Fediverse beyond Mastodon. Now I'm trying my darnedest to change this, and so are many people. But facts are facts. Fediverse alternatives to Meta are a blip on the radar.
Refusing to federate with Barcelona won't change this. How do I know?
Because we don't federate now, and the status quo remains intact.
Meanwhile, Meta is practically gifting Pixelfed and Friendica an opportunity for federation, and it would be foolish to not consider broader implications.
How is it that more people aren't considering this opportunity?
Dare I say that most people -- including devs -- suffer from myopia concerning what the Fediverse is. The Fediverse is not Mastodon, and it is wrong to view the Fediverse solely through the eyes of Mastodon.
And I'll go further: by focusing Barcelona on text, I suspect that Meta is likewise making the same mistake of viewing the Fediverse as a "Twitter killer".
What they may not be considering is that the Fediverse might be a "Meta killer" too. And connecting Barcelona to the Fediverse is opening a can of worms Meta hasn't entirely considered yet.
If Barcelona is indeed text-based, what will happen when a Barcelona user encounters Pixelfed and asks, "Why does this post show reels? And why can't I do the same?"
Believe me, this is the kind of content that triggers migration.
We need to think bigger than Fediblock. Yes, for your own mental health and safety, you may not want to federate with Barcelona. However, there needs to also be a means for Barcelona users to encounter content outside Barcelona.
Perhaps there needs to be "lobby" servers that help Barcelona users enter the greater Fediverse -- helping them make the switch beyond Meta.
Look, it's not that I don't get the enthusiasm about #P92/#Barcelona —that's not the reason why I warn against federating with it <https://sociale.network/@oblomov/110397020867065165>. I do get it. There is something elating, validating, empowering even, when some{one,thing} Big & Famous (seems to) adopts “underdog” tech. I know because I've been there, both as a user and as a developer. But because of that, and for having been burned already not once, not twice, but three times at least, I know what to look out for.
Yet even most #Mastodon users aren't even aware of the wider #Fediverse, thanks in part to the platform being (intentionally?) designed to hide this, by not rendering rich text formatting, providing inadequate support for non-Note object types, no indication of the originating platform for contacts and posts coming from non-Mastodon angles of the Fediverse (compare with #Friendica proudly showing its extensive federation support), etc
If you could point me to different people who were part of developing these software solutions, that would be great. I got some of them, I would like to feature the champs that started/continued developing.
I promise it's nothing more than the straight-up promotion of this wonderful place.
Ich betreibe eine #Friendica Instanz mit dem Theme frio. Wenn ich mit Browser Firefox auf die Instanz greife, hat uBlock ziemlich viel zu tun. Woher stammen diese Tracker(?) und Dinge, die uBlock da ausfiltern muss? Ich folge nur wenigen Accounts.
Bei Frio habe ich am Smartphone das Problem das ich nicht sehe ob ich einen Beitrag im Stream einen Luke/dislikes verpasst habe. Weder verändert sich die Farbe der Grafik, noch bekomme ich es sonst wie angezeigt. Das hat man erst nach einen Reload der Seite. Das ist mir jetzt schon mit verschiedenen Farbschemata aufgefallen. Und es ist echt kontraproduktiv.
If Mastodon is Twitter, Friendica is Facebook, and Lemmy is Reddit, but they're all communicating together, is there any real need to make different accounts unless we want to try out different features?
hi. i'm new to #friendica
2 questions about events:
1 i did a test #event (via calendar) and deleted it.
its gone from my friendica account but it still show up when i look at my profile from a mastodon account.
how can i delete it completely?
2 can i attach a pic to an event? (instead of my profile pic). again viewed from a mastodon account
Test from Kbin to group/forum Friendica (poliverso.org)
Hi Friendica @testgroup