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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.”
Maybe Diaspora needs to update their logo, similar to how Walmart just updated their logo recently.
Yeah that’s a pretty generic logo
Fun fact ‘e pluribus anus’ translates to ‘from many old people’
I thought it meant “the many buttholes” as like a diversity thing.
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…
I think Hubzilla and Friendica are its only links to the rest of the Fediverse. Both support ActivityPub and Diaspora.
Friendica it is then.
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.
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.
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.
"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!
That would definitely be welcome!
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.
Thats why it’s important to avoid using the term “never”
🙄
I know, right?
Can I just say I love your profile picture 😂
Thanks!
I tried both and it looks like Friendica has more features and is more compatible with other apps on ActivityPub.
In the end I chose Friendica.
I apologize for my ignorance but i did try to figure it out and read… but can i interact with lemmy on friendica and vice versa? i see mastodon should work…but not understanding i guess
Yeah you can basically search for users like Qkall@lemmy.ml and it will find it.
Yes, Friendica should work with pretty much everything on the Fediverse and beyond (Bluesky, Diaspora, Tumblr and anything that spits out an RSS feed). It handles communities a lot better than micro-blogging services.
Gotta love ELSTER, my favorite social media platform.
Context
ELSTER, short for ELektronische STeuerERklärung (electronic tax return), is the official German software/web page for creating and submitting your tax return. It has the same logo as Diaspora.
Elster is also the German term for magpie.
The logo:
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.
I doubt so. The association between magpies and theft is fairly strong in German:
(diebisch = thieving)
Source: DWDS (digital dictionary of the German language - publicly financed)
A logDice of 10.1 is extremely high by the way. For example, “war” has a score of 10.8 with “cold”, an 8.1 with “peace” and a 7.3 with “against terror”.
I was joking.
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…
Even better lol
Rednote and discord coming in with steel chairs.
Omg so many light mode screenshots even against a dark mode backdrop. I literally can’t look at this right now… Maybe some other day.
No they aren’t, not till the boomers finally die off.
I see older people on Friendica.
I see dead people.
Walking around like regular people. They don’t know they’re dead.:-)
I keep telling you I’m just dead inside, not on the outside!
Oh this explains so much!
Perhaps they never lived.
Or sold their souls for the tiniest splash of convenience.
