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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
I should make the little Friendica guide!
That would definitely be welcome!
Do it!
If the only information on Bluesky integration is in German, it is partly bring held back by bad documentation and guides.
@Sunshine If you do, let me know. I will add it to my megathread here:
https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2167-82af-600d-9ea129892452
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.
As much as Facebook sucks these things will never replace it.
Here we go again with the inaccurate fortune telling. Things can change, the code, apps and instances can improve.
I hope they do and replace Facebook. But in their current iteration, they won't. That's all I'm saying.
Thats why it’s important to avoid using the term “never”
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I know, right?
Can I just say I love your profile picture haha
Thanks!
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.