Friendica

I wouldn’t want to conclude a post about Friendica on a negative note - because despite its flaws, Friendica has fast become my favorite place in the Fediverse.

I know I only addressed the tip of the iceberg with this post (Friendica power users don’t get angry at me). There is just so much to like and appreciate about Friendica. It's that good.

Who knows, with the Fediverse getting a lot of newfound interest, maybe there will be investments in Friendica servers... or fundraising efforts to support servers and their admins. I know I would donate instantly.

Would I recommend that people already on the Fediverse try out Friendica? Absolutely. Don’t walk, run: friendi.ca

Friendica is, apparently, compatible with the Mastodon API so it's apps should work but it might not be a great fit and I've heard reports of apps not working.

Friendica has a list here.

I've spoken to on iOS Mastodon app developer who is looking into how their app works with Friendica but if anyone has tested any other apps that work let us know here. One complaint is Friendica's UI/UX isn't great and having more apps could be a big help.

@korendian@lemmy.world @blaze@feddit.org

Hello Korendian! I see that you’re also interested in this great platform, I hope you don’t mind me appointing you as a moderator, as I would love to have you here💙💛

I believe we should consolidate under this community as it was made earlier and has the most content.

Let’s grow the world’s interest in the friendly open-source alternative to Facebook.

I see that not everybody uses their actual names in their profiles as they’re testing out the waters in this new territory. The platform will take some relearning from Facebook to get used to.

It is notable that Friendica does support the ability to have multiple profiles on each account.

But the one thing that is funny to me is that anonymous users from Lemmy are able to communicate with Friendica users with real names. Imagine a well known expert on physics arguing with some armchair random from Lemmy hehe.