Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network

50•janandonly•5h ago

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mosaibah•2h ago

Mastodon gets all the attention but Friendica's federation story is actually broader, it speaks ActivityPub, Diaspora, and OStatus in the same node, so your contacts don't all have to be on the same protocol, that interop layer is undersold.

amelius•16m ago

I guess that one day soon we will have a Claw that just pumps information between all the different social networks.

kennywinker•1h ago

I’m interested in self-hosting a small social network for my family and close friends. Something to get us off facebook/instagram. If anybody is more familiar with the options, is this what you’d recommend?

embedding-shape•1h ago

I have a forum I self-hosted for friends and family, they have their own login I gave them, it typically have 3-4 posts a week or something, at the very least one post from me as I have a "What I've been up to this week" thread. Seems to work out OK, and is probably as private as you can have something on the public internet.

EGreg•1h ago

You could use this: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

Example: https://freecities.app

Video demos: https://vimeo.com/1141492621/23e8b84b8b

Disclaimer: I built it. Lovingly, over 15+ years.

conception•46m ago

I tossed together a mattermost server. It’s effectively a slack cove and works pretty great.

throwanem•41m ago

It's been a decade, but I had a very similar experience with Mattermost. It would be, if perhaps not where I would end up today, then certainly where I would start looking.

interglossa•1h ago

I tried it sometime ago. I liked the interface but haven't found much of a community around it. It is very unfortunate that diaspora did not thrive earlier.

swed420•52m ago

Anybody have familiarity with Friendica to know how it stacks against the common pitfalls listed here?

https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/

Seems like it maybe suffers from the "fiefdom" / portability issue that other platforms struggle with, but I haven't looked closely.

AnonyMD•34m ago

I tried to host this a few years ago, but it fell through because there wasn't enough documentation. I wonder if the documentation is more comprehensive now?

adityamwagh•20m ago

Do we even need documentation with LLMs? :)

ripvanwinkle•11m ago

The LLMs need documentation

t-3•4m ago

The LLMs might be able to put the mythical "the code is the documentation" into practice.

virgil_disgr4ce•28m ago

This is one of the least convincing homepages I've ever seen. It doesn't help that there are no x margins at the largest media query. In fact nothing about this page encourages me to spend more than one second looking at it.

mxuribe•10m ago

Wow, this is a blast from the past! I haven't touched nor done anything on Friendica since like 2014/2015! (Yes, this is one of the grand daddy of the original fediverse social platforms before the name "fediverse" was even a thing...like Gnu Social and status.net old!) Good on them that they're still going strong!

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