Mudança de instância - Instance move

Dentro de um dou dois dias irei, finalmente, mudar para a minha instância definitiva.

Ao contrário do que tinha pensado, não optei pela plataforma #Hubzilla. Continuo a achar que é a melhor dentro do #Fediverse, mas tem muitas funcionalidades que não me fazem falta.

Considerei o #Mastodon, mas desisti da ideia. É muito pesado e limitado! 500 caracteres é ridículo! E, para além disso, não se liga à #diaspora.

Ainda pensei na Pleroma, que não tem o limite ridículo dos 500 caracteres, mas também não liga à #diaspora.

Resultado, decidi voltar a uma velha e fiel amiga, a #Friendica. É leve, simples mas potente, não tem limites parvos de escrita e fala com todos!

Por isso, já sabem, se daqui a um par de dias receberem um convite dum tal joao@social.pinheirodeabrantes.pt, sou eu!

E agora terei de publicar este texto usando a minha antiga conta da plataforma Friendica por causa do tal limite parvo, só porque ele tem 1993 caracteres!

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In a couple of days I will finally move to my own instance.

Contrary to what I had thought, I didn't choose the #Hubzilla platform. I still think it is the best within the #Fediverse, but it has many features that I don't need.

I considered #Mastodon, but gave up on the idea. It's too heavy and limited! 500 characters is ridiculous! And on top of that, it doesn't connect to #diaspora.

I still thought about Pleroma, which doesn't have the ridiculous 500 character limit, but it also doesn't link to #diaspora.

As a result, I decided to go back to an old and faithful friend, #Friendica. It's light, simple yet powerful, has no silly writing limits and talks to everyone!

So, now you know, if in a couple of days you receive an invitation from joao@social.pinheirodeabrantes.pt, that's me!

And now I will have to publish this text using my old Friendica platform account because of that silly limit, just because it has 1993 characters!

@𝗝𝗮𝗸𝗼𝗯 :𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮: 🇦🇹 ✅
Wie viele Nutzer hast du denn auf deiner Instanz laufen?
Also ich hab gerade mal 3 aktive und einer davon ist ein Bot.

Die Datenbank war auch immer das Problem von der Größe.
Ich habe dann die Avatar Bilder nicht mehr in der Datenbank gespeichert (das war irgendeine Einstellung) und dann wurde die immer kleiner und kleiner.

Ich vermute mal daran wird es wohl liegen, das #friendica so langsam reagiert, oder wurden irgendwelche Indizes nicht oder nicht so ganz glücklich gesetzt Aber dazu kann ich nichts sagen, das ich da noch nie nachgeschaut habe.

Habe das nur in anderen großen Arbeitsprojekten festgestellt, das dies manchmal wunder gewirkt hat.
Hier könnten wohl nur die erfahrenen Entwickler was dazu sagen.

@Friendica Support@Friendica Developers

Let me start with a concrete, question: Are there any efforts / plans to support the upload of videos?

And now, since I might have your attention, allow me to broaden the question to:

What is your opinion regarding "what #Friendica is / should be"?

My view / vision is heading slightly in the direction that nowadays image and video content is quite central in social networks and thus a #Fediverse application like friendica should support the multimedia aspect a bit more, if it wants to be attractive for the broad public in terms of being an alternative to commercial social networks.

Most of you might tell: "Yeah, if one prefers media centric Fediverse, then check out #pixelfed ". But I think, pixelfed is yet too much of an Instagram clone, only providing the image / video focus (which bothered me at Instagram from the very beginning not being able to have good commenting / discussion options there).

In my view, Friendica has great potential becoming a great "one fits all" application for the majority of people who like social media and the concept of the Fediverse. It has way more cool functions than #mastodon / pixelfed (which are in my opinion too close copies of Instagram and Twitter, respectively) but much simpler and convenient than Hubzilla (which I think is really great, for a computer science person, but not for the broad non-technical focussed public)

Wrapping it up: I would love to see a Friendica development towards an easier multimedia support. What are your thoughts?

Cheers

Marek

tallship wrote the following post Fri, 09 Dec 2022 01:13:49 +0200


@downey

Mastodon IS NOT the #Fediverse!

The #BDFL of that project saying it's is "vital" illustrates the branding philosophy and corporate, ego driven mindset behind so many PRs and requests that have repeatedly been rejected by an overwhelming amount of Fediverse users and developers - just look at how many 👎 "thumbs down" 👎 reactions his post received (that is rarely seen on GitHub).

His language and marketing have been largely successful, confusing newcomers during this Twitter egress (including media coverage) and conflating just what the Fediverse and mastodon are...

People are saying, "I just joined mastodon!" - NO, you did not. You just joined the "Fediverse", by creating an account on a mastodon server. Even newcomers creating accounts on #Friendica and #Pleroma servers are often seen saying this, and it needs to "STOP".

The Fediverse is the network they are joining, and mastodon is just one of a dozen or so viable platforms that people can use to do so.

Truth be told, mastodon is one of the least feature complete Fediverse server platforms, lacking in many of the most basic social networking tools and features that most other popular server platforms introduced ages ago.

It doesn't even render Markdown, have have quotable boosting, only introduced editing of posts a couple of weeks back, and has a hard coded limit of a paltry 500 characters for each post, forcing users to create those confusingly chronologically backward hellthreads that are interspersed and broken up in everyone's feeds, and there's many more deficiencies to list here.

This is why there are so many different forks.

When you create a #PeerTube account, you haven't joined the PeerTube network - you've joined the Fediverse!

When you create a #Pixelfed account, you haven't joined the Pixelfed network - you've joined the Fediverse!

If you create a mastodon account, you haven't joined "mastodon" - you've joined three Fediverse!

There is no such thing as a mastodon network!

It's just one type of Fediverse server platform, among many, like:

#Akkama, Pleroma, Friendica, #Lemmy, #Soapbox, #Misskey, PeerTube, #Mitra, Pixelfed, #MicroPub, #Epicyon, #Quanta, #GoToSicial, #Socialhome, #FunkWhale, and many many other platforms that open up the entire Fediverse to people, allowing them to share and seamlessly communicate with one another.

There are analogs for #Faceplant, #Twitter, #InstaSPAM, #Reddit, and pretty much any type of social networking experience you can find in the deprecated, centralized, legacy silo systems that cannot, and do not wish to interact with each other - which the Fediverse breaks the paradigm of, and empowers everyone engage with each other globally.

Mastodon's marketing has very deliberately been designed to subvert that narrative and replace this reality with its own, self serving commercial interests to the detriment of Fediverse itself.

A wake up call us coming very soon when the #non_FOSS based platforms like #Tumblr and #Imgur join their (millions) substantial user bases to the Fediverse at which time, mastodon itself may find itself drowned out and largely irrelevant due to its very lacking feature set, and ask if the other existing Fediverse platforms providing so much more if what is possible for us all.

This is typically what happens when your development is driven by egocentric, ulterior motives (whether he actually realizes this about himself or not) to benefit yourself personally - just look at how his donations have jumped, even though newcomers are creating accounts on other Fediverse and mastodon servers begging for donations that for the most part are going directly to him.

#tallship #FOSS #ActivityPub #introductions #newcomers

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