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!Friendica Support I really love #friendica and an thinking about trying to to a presentation, but I'm no one important just a user. Would anyone be upset if I did? Anyone would want to do it with me?


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I think that users are extremely important, so "no one important just a user" is not true. Thanks for doing a presentation. Do you want to present it in advance, to check and possibly enhance it?
A bit off track, but I think I'm allowed to mention it here in context: I read about the proposal to stop calling people here users and to start calling them people. In fact, drug addicts are also called users. Let's be more human.
I am a user (here and now) and I feel 100% human. "User" is not an identity, it is a contextual role of someone operating the platform, while not having/using administrative privileges.
Furthermore, there are profiles that cannot be designated as "people": multiperson accounts, various personas / aspects of an individual, bots, and - eventually - AI-driven identities.
So to me, "user" is acceptable, and "profile" is even better.

Having said that, I believe someone can provide an addon, allowing site admin to modify wording as they please. That would be a solution in a truly decentralized spirit. At least for English language version.
I am not certain how complex it would be for German, Polish, or other fusional languages.
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You are part of the Friendica community and I think as qualified as most of us to introduce people to Friendica and the Fediverse. If you have questions for some things you want to tell during your presentation, just ask.
@Ji Fu@Free Software Foundation Each user is important and I will say something even more extreme: a simple user who talks about Friendica at a conference on associations is more important than a Friendica developer who talks about it in a conference on the fediverse. Better a simple user who writes about friendica on Charlie Hebdo than a journalist who talks about it on Wired!
@Signor Amministratore@Ji Fu@Free Software Foundation I can only agree with this. I was a supporter of open source software for years. But I don't know anything about coding. I was able to report from the user's point of view what I found good about the software, what features there were, etc. I noticed that developers often found this interesting. Because first of all they are potential users themselves. Because as users they have a double interest in contributing as developers.
Thanks guys I really appreciate the encouragement. Just another example of why Friendica is awesome