• Jupiter Rowland@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      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.)

    • Fitik@fedia.io
      12·
      5 days ago

      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…

        • Jupiter Rowland@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Won’t happen.

          Around December 29th, multiple big diaspora* pods shut down. According to one source, diaspora* lost over half of its users within three days. On January 25th, diasp.org, one of the biggest pods, will meet its end.

          Also, if anything, Friendica (plus Hubzilla plus Socialhome) will suck the rest of life out of diaspora*. diaspora* users will move there from their own dying pods to stay in contact both with their friends who still hold out on diaspora* and with their friends who have moved on to something that uses ActivityPub. And the former will become fewer and fewer as more and more pods shut down.

      • Scott M. Stolz@loves.tech
        2·
        4 days ago

        I think Hubzilla and Friendica are its only links to the rest of the Fediverse. Both support ActivityPub and Diaspora.

  • rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    315·
    5 days ago

    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.

    • blackn1ght@feddit.ukEnglish
      27·
      5 days ago

      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.

      • Jupiter Rowland@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        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.

    • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      126·
      5 days ago

      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.

    • cybersin@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      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.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
    15·
    5 days ago

    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.

    • Qkall@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      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

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukMEnglish
        5·
        5 days ago

        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.

  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    13·
    5 days ago

    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: