Aw man, I'm on Diaspora and I didn't even recognise the logo.
Reminds me of the logo of a certain community college...
E Pluribus Anus for life
"There's a conspiracy here."
Yeah that's a pretty generic logo
Maybe Diaspora needs to update their logo, similar to how Walmart just updated their logo recently.
I joined Diaspora back when Google+ went tits up. Is Anything actually happening over there?
It's pretty dead, a lot of pods has closed down last year and it continues to shrink, they could maybe reverse the process by supporting ActivityPub or other additional protocol, but they have refused, and diaspora* protocol hasn't gained any additional traction, sooo..
Friendica it is then.
I think Hubzilla and Friendica are its only links to the rest of the Fediverse. Both support ActivityPub and Diaspora.
Ironically, Google+ was an all-out diaspora* ripoff. And Google got away with it because they brazenly stole from something that nobody even knew existed.
Remember Google's new UI style? The black bar at the top? Stolen from diaspora* for Google+.
Also, everyone claims that Google+ invented the concept of "circles". Actually, Google just ripped off diaspora*'s aspects. (And Friendica had them several months before diaspora* even. So Friendica had them first. Not diaspora*. And Google even less.)
Yep I was a very early developer (software developer) on the platform back in the day. Facebook and Google both stole a lot of what diaspora did with communities/circles and UI. I have not been on it for a very long time. I should take another look.
As much as Facebook sucks, these things will never replace it.
Just clicking through them, it's apparent it suffers from the same problem lemmy has. You have to read things and follow instructions and then choose an instance....
Yeah, you lost everyone at the first step of having to follow instructions. People just want a Sign Up button, and that's it. That's the only step they're willing to go through.
If, after clicking Sign up, they then have to figure out which instance (whatever that is) they have to choose, they'll just quit right there.
Such projects desperately need some professional UX/UI people involved. They always feel like they're designed by back-end devs.
I also can't imagine there being any difference to the instances as the concept of "local" doesn't really make sense like it does with Lemmy. Maybe they should obfuscate the instance selection and the sign up process just puts you onto a random instance or one that's best suited by geographical location.
"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users
- https://discuss.online/ if you want a server located in the USA (content is still accessible from any server, the most difference latency)
- https://sopuli.xyz/ if you want a server located in the EU
- https://vger.app/ if you want an app
Feel free if you have any questions"
People need to create a similar message for Friendica
This is even fairly easy for (streams) which is a fork of a fork of three forks of a fork (of a fork?) of a fork of Friendica by Friendica's own creator, eleven years after Friendica. And I wouldn't even feel bad about it.
That's because (streams) has only got two public, open-registration instances. If you're in North America, it's Rumbly. If you're in Europe, it's Nomád (with a German veteran admin who also runs two Hubzilla hubs, who is savvy enough to single-handedly re-write Hubzilla's entire help system from scratch in both German and English, and who plans to do the same for (streams)).
And it's because (streams) intentionally keeps itself away from instance-listing websites like Fediverse Observer and FediDB, so being railroaded to any one specific instance is just about the only chance you have to get into (streams).
Granted, it has a learning curve that's even steeper than Friendica's. It doesn't have a UI/UX that looks like $10M of VC. And there's no way whatsoever to use (streams) with any kind of dedicated, native mobile Fediverse app, especially not its own official iPhone app named "Streams" that looks like $20M of VC.
The intersection of regular Facebook users and people who care about enough, or are willing to make the effort to switch is also likely quite small.
I tried both and it looks like Friendica has more features and is more compatible with other apps on ActivityPub.
In the end I chose Friendica.
I apologize for my ignorance but i did try to figure it out and read... but can i interact with lemmy on friendica and vice versa? i see mastodon should work...but not understanding i guess
Yes, Friendica should work with pretty much everything on the Fediverse and beyond (Bluesky, Diaspora, Tumblr and anything that spits out an RSS feed). It handles communities a lot better than micro-blogging services.
Yeah you can basically search for users like [email protected] and it will find it.
Gotta love ELSTER, my favorite social media platform.
Context
ELSTER, short for ELektronische STeuerERklärung (electronic tax return), is the official German software/web page for creating and submitting your tax return. It has the same logo as Diaspora.
Elster is also the German term for magpie.
The logo:
Fun fact 'e pluribus anus' translates to 'from many old people'
I thought it meant "the many buttholes" as like a diversity thing.
Rednote and discord coming in with steel chairs.
Omg so many light mode screenshots even against a dark mode backdrop. I literally can't look at this right now... Maybe some other day.
