Friendica Has Reached 2,646 Monthly Active Users
Friendica Has Reached 2,646 Monthly Active Users
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This is good growth for such a smaller lesser known fedi project that replaces Facebook.
The tough part about something like Friendica is that it's usefulness very dependent on how many of your friends are on it. You'd need a group of friends to all join together for it to stick.
No official Android and iPhone apps => no users.
whats the best queer friendly instance so far that actually bans/defederates from bigots?
genuine question so i can join
I had a Friendica account like 10 years ago. Kinda sad to hear it's only 2.500 active users.
Requiring people to create an account just to see anything is a sure way to immediately drive off any potential new users.
Isn't that what you want for a Facebook replacement though?
I guess being able to browse public profiles and posts would be good, but if it's like Facebook then wouldn't most people be using their real names and posting about semi-personal IRL stuff?
You'd want that stuff to only show for your friends, and maybe friends of friends
Stop naming Fedi software with shitty names, you'll have more people.
Yeah, Rednote is such a wonderful name tbh.
The only reason Facebook doesn't sound dumb is that we've been saying it for like 15 years
I believe Facebook’s name came from an actual thing. The company was created for college students. Many campuses, would give face books that had students and professors from the universities.
Yeah lemmy is already a dumb enough name.
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Oh look, the pope of names has spoken!
I agree that it is an exceptional software, perhaps the best of the Fediverse, but it has a terrible name. The reason for this name was to mark a continuity with the first potentially federated social network, namely "identi.ca"
Moreover, despite the name, it is not a really friendly software, but presents several ergonomic complexities. Finally, I add that when I pronounce it with my dictation system, it is always transliterated as "free handicap", which is a very inclusive thing, but every time I have to correct it... 🤣
This is also why I decided to call my instance with a different name such as Poliverso, Too bad that a few months later Zuckerberg decided to launch his failed Metaverso project, which is why every time I have to explain that I did not call it that to parody the Metaverso 🤬
Shorten to "Frendi", probably would be enough to get app discussed and shared more.
Let's hope that there are also a few organisations that run Friendica instances so that the offer becomes a bit bigger. In the last two years, everyone has been totally fixated on Mastodon and many have opened a Mastodon server without realising that there were other options.
At some point one more is too many
I’d like to use it on iPhone but no app as far as I can tell
It's compatible with the Mastodon API, so you can use those apps.
Blame Apple. They're the ones requiring people to get proprietary paid accounts for the privilege of distributing software for their shitty devices.