The Great Migration 🚀

Carlos Solís

Friendica is a dinosaur that predates Mastodon and prides itself on being hostable in any web host that accepts PHP with versions as low as 7.4. A Rust rewrite would no longer be Friendica, unfortunately. There's also the zillion forks of it (Hubzilla, Zap, Osada, Streams to name a few) and those, too, are still based on PHP.

Carlos Solís

However! Friendica very recently released a new version that finally does something about the slow queries, by adding a cache for network channels. It also includes a few quality-of-life improvements. friendi.ca/2026/01/27/friendic…

Paul Sutton (zleap)

@dansup @matrix @xmpp

Linkedin -> https://nolto.social/

Nebelsturm_Kakumeika

@dansup @matrix @xmpp

windows->LINUX
android->graphenOS
microsoft office->libre office

wakest ⁂

@zleap its a vibe coded thing that doesn't federate at all, and lies on the front page about what it supports, why are you spreading this link

Tedel

@dansup @matrix @xmpp

I believe Diaspora* needs to be included in the next edition of this graphic.

patosz

@gimulnautti @dansup @matrix @xmpp how come? what's the story?

contranym

@dansup sadly, friendica was badly broken when i tried it. and i thought one point of federating was you would only need one account on one service and you could interact with other services on the fediverse. is this not the case? i still dont know how it works because ive only tried to add ppl from bsky, and i guess thats not actually federated, so it requires a bridge i didnt want to mess with. i have a hard enough time finding friends on diff masto instances.

shadowwwind

@Drahngis @dansup the long text thing is a client issue, there are multiple clients that solve that. I believe the Webinterface collapses long text. Moshiodon certainly does.

*The* Paul Brown

@dansup @matrix @xmpp

So why don't you do it properly? It's not that hard:

X ️ https://joinmastodon.org
IG ️ https://pixelfed.org
FB ️ https://friendi.ca
TikTok ️ https://joinloops.org
YouTube ️ https://joinpeertube.org
WhatsApp ️ https://matrix.org

You're welcome.

Fuck Signal.

George B

@dansup @damianwalsh

I found one a couple of weeks ago and made an account but lost the URL and it seems to be completely unsearchable.

Maybe someone else will post it in the replies but that isn't really a good sign.

Amal

@dansup @matrix @xmpp
Beautiful

bjoern

@anon_4601 @dansup #deltachat does not require a phone number nor you have to provide your address nor a SIM card is required.

you can use it even without a phone.

it uses SMTP/IMAP under the hood, with a random address. nothing is persisted on the server, for metadata, see https://delta.chat/en/help#message-metadata

Sam

@makeitmythic@mastodon.social Bluesky uses a different protocol and isn't apart of the Fediverse without the @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy bridge what needs to go both ways.

When it comes to the Fediverse you sometimes need other accounts but it depends on the sort of experience you want, I work fine off a Microblogging account for most of my interactions, I use a software called Sharkey for more usability and it allows me to follow users off Loops, PixelFed, Mastodon, PeerTube or Lemmy but it's a little annoying / needs some work arounds to post onto Lemmy, PixelFed is easy to post my stuff onto as I simply need an image in the post. PeerTube and Loops are kinda a no go for them seeing my content even if I upload a video sadly but that's fine if you don't want to be a creator in that matter.

These systems like Loops are new or even in BETA so it'll take some time to make sure these work all together but it also depends on the people using it, if you feel like a feature is missing voice about it, see who has the same opinion, if you have tech knowledge code it.

contranym

@sam yeah, i already knew bsky wasnt truly federated, and thats why i gave up on trying to interact with it. the only other services im possibly interested in are peertube and lemmy, but i have enough problems just trying to interact with friends on the same instance (mastodon.social). when i post about an issue, i usually get no interaction or people asking me what my server setup is like, and sadly i have no coding knowledge. i wish things Just Worked a bit better for people in an expected way

anon_4601

@r10s @dansup

Oh wow. Okay, thst's just great!
When I opened Deltachat some time a ago, an email address was require.

However I just tested this by installing DeltaChat on a LinuxPC and opened an account just by entering a nickname.

You're absolutely right, nothing is required at all. Thank you for pointing this out to me, I'll fix my post right away!
Thanks again.

Sam

@makeitmythic@mastodon.social I really suggest that people don't crowd mastodon.social as feeds are chronological it gets flooded with stuff making it hard to get interaction. Also a key friend is hashtags they always help get things out there, interaction no matter what is a key thing as often posting into the void doesn't really do much.

Also to interact with a Lemmy community you simply mention that community as apart of your post and it'll be boosted onto it.

contranym

@sam yeah, i just wanted a large community to be a part of. i use hashtags and get maybe 3 people to like a post, most of my engagement is in comments like these, but i rarely find answers that are viable. i want to be able to add friends from lemmy and see them in my masto feed but idk if thats possible.

Sam

@makeitmythic@mastodon.social Yes it's totally possible, Lemmy communities are completely followable along with the Lemmy users. Well they won't see any of your normal microblogging posts they can see your stuff boosted from mentioning the Lemmy Community.

3 people liking your post is still good, I don't often get likes but when people like, boost and comment on my posts I know that I've create and shared something where it needs to be and people want to hear it. In the end this is a space for communication and yes sometimes you're wrong place and the wrong time but other times it's just right.