Facebook's Days Are Numbered

Aw man, I'm on Diaspora and I didn't even recognise the logo.

Reminds me of the logo of a certain community college...
- E Pluribus Anus for life
- "There's a conspiracy here."
Yeah that's a pretty generic logo
Maybe Diaspora needs to update their logo, similar to how Walmart just updated their logo recently.

I joined Diaspora back when Google+ went tits up. Is Anything actually happening over there?

It's pretty dead, a lot of pods has closed down last year and it continues to shrink, they could maybe reverse the process by supporting ActivityPub or other additional protocol, but they have refused, and diaspora* protocol hasn't gained any additional traction, sooo..
- Friendica it is then.
- @Fitik So the only chance of Diaspora to survive is for Friendica to grow. Just like it happened with Mastodon back in the day, and I could see anything I wanted.
  @Sunshine @Emperor
- I think Hubzilla and Friendica are its only links to the rest of the Fediverse. Both support ActivityPub and Diaspora.
Ironically, Google+ was an all-out diaspora* ripoff. And Google got away with it because they brazenly stole from something that nobody even knew existed.
Remember Google's new UI style? The black bar at the top? Stolen from diaspora* for Google+.
Also, everyone claims that Google+ invented the concept of "circles". Actually, Google just ripped off diaspora*'s aspects. (And Friendica had them several months before diaspora* even. So Friendica had them first. Not diaspora*. And Google even less.)
- Yep I was a very early developer (software developer) on the platform back in the day. Facebook and Google both stole a lot of what diaspora did with communities/circles and UI. I have not been on it for a very long time. I should take another look.

As much as Facebook sucks, these things will never replace it.

Just clicking through them, it's apparent it suffers from the same problem lemmy has. You have to read things and follow instructions and then choose an instance....

Yeah, you lost everyone at the first step of having to follow instructions. People just want a Sign Up button, and that's it. That's the only step they're willing to go through.

If, after clicking Sign up, they then have to figure out which instance (whatever that is) they have to choose, they'll just quit right there.

Such projects desperately need some professional UX/UI people involved. They always feel like they're designed by back-end devs.
I also can't imagine there being any difference to the instances as the concept of "local" doesn't really make sense like it does with Lemmy. Maybe they should obfuscate the instance selection and the sign up process just puts you onto a random instance or one that's best suited by geographical location.
As much as Facebook sucks these things will never replace it.
Here we go again with the inaccurate fortune telling. Things can change, the code, apps and instances can improve.
- I hope they do and replace Facebook. But in their current iteration, they won't. That's all I'm saying.
"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users
https://discuss.online/ if you want a server located in the USA (content is still accessible from any server, the most difference latency)
https://sopuli.xyz/ if you want a server located in the EU
https://vger.app/ if you want an app
Feel free if you have any questions"
People need to create a similar message for Friendica
- I should make the little Friendica guide!
- This is even fairly easy for (streams) which is a fork of a fork of three forks of a fork (of a fork?) of a fork of Friendica by Friendica's own creator, eleven years after Friendica. And I wouldn't even feel bad about it.
  That's because (streams) has only got two public, open-registration instances. If you're in North America, it's Rumbly. If you're in Europe, it's Nomád (with a German veteran admin who also runs two Hubzilla hubs, who is savvy enough to single-handedly re-write Hubzilla's entire help system from scratch in both German and English, and who plans to do the same for (streams)).
  And it's because (streams) intentionally keeps itself away from instance-listing websites like Fediverse Observer and FediDB, so being railroaded to any one specific instance is just about the only chance you have to get into (streams).
  Granted, it has a learning curve that's even steeper than Friendica's. It doesn't have a UI/UX that looks like $10M of VC. And there's no way whatsoever to use (streams) with any kind of dedicated, native mobile Fediverse app, especially not its own official iPhone app named "Streams" that looks like $20M of VC.
The intersection of regular Facebook users and people who care about enough, or are willing to make the effort to switch is also likely quite small.

Gotta love ELSTER, my favorite social media platform.

The logo for a tax company being an asshole is perfect!
- It's actually not a company. It's a website published by our government.
  I'll let you think your part about that...
Tax Software called magpie
And they say Germans don't have a sense of humor!
- We don't know if this was merely an accident.