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!

@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

Mainstream media journalist: It's too hard to build an audience on Mastodon! I cross-post the same shouty posts and one-sentence slogans as I do on the fowl app, and they just get no traction here! It must be because it's just too complicated for people to read posts from other instances or something!

Me: Okay, do you follow many interesting people here?

Journo: No.

Me: Do you reply to posts and engage with other people?

Journo: No.

Me: Do you like and share many other people's posts?

Journo: No.

Me: Do you post anything interesting, insightful or funny? Or just shouty denouncements?

Journo: Oh, I don't just cross-post shouty posts and slogans — I also do self-promotion! Subscribe now to read my latest article!

Me: Could the problem be that you've relied entirely on an algorithm that's fine-tuned to incite people by distributing the most provocative content widely to generate ad views? That the core issues are that you don't engage, contribute little to the online community, and share little content of real value and substance? That you're essentially no different to the social media bullies you so often denounce in your paywalled articles?

Journo: No. The problem isn't me, the problem is Mastodon!

#TwitterMigration #Twitter #Mastodon