Friendica needs some serious work on its ui. One reason lemmy works is because there’s lots of good third party apps.
@Sunshine@lemmy.ca Personally I think this overview of Friendica written by Elena is much better
https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-3-friendica/
Honestly, friendica seems cool, in the same way Facebook seemed cool in the early days, but if we’re remaking social media for the fediverse, can we try to remake Myspace instead?
They did already actually! https://spacehey.com/
I don’t think it’s part of the fediverse tho… I’ve heard hubzilla is the closest to MySpace but none of them are 100%
I forgot about spacehey! I made an account and never got around to setting it up. Shame it’s not part of the fediverse, though! Myspace had that part where you could, like, post a random letter or something that wasn’t confined to your friends. I can’t remember what it was called. I just remember Mrs. Abnorman Punkrockwell used to post open letters. Lmao. Anyway, it would be perfect for integrating into Mastodon, and Myspace groups would be perfect for integrating into Lemmy.
I’m pissed at myself for skipping over myspace. How much control do they give you over your page? It looks pretty robust.
Are there any good ios apps?
Unfortunately there aren’t, just for Sailfish and Android.
Not having an iOS app although not the end of the world (can use the web app) is definitely not helping further this along.
Someone please make a dedicated iOS app for Friendica
Thanks for this.
I just signed up for friendica. I found it was slow as hell and I couldn’t find content. I posted a question in one of the most popular groups, and I got no response.
Also, their “forums” aren’t really forums. They’re just a wall.
