There is HumHub and Hubzilla also
if you’re capable and have a server, i recommend spinning up pixelfed and friendica instances for your parents and families. they’re probably the simplest fediverse apps to install too.
it’s one thing for you to move, it’s another thing to be able to get your parents and family to move over.
This is something that I hope fediverse developers and OSS developers start focusing on: making installation and self-hosting much simpler. Currently trying to set up self-hosted anything is a gigantic pain in the ass if you’re not already an experienced sysadmin.
If you want to host your own instance, there are also managed hosting offers for Friendica, e.g. by Weingärtner-IT (from 4€/month) or Spacehost (20€).
To get to know Friendica, however, I would recommend simply creating an account and testing it out, first.
how would you recommend pitching it? I know all the sweet unix/linux things, and freedom and such, but how would you pitch it in a way that your parents would care about?
well most of the time - at least for me - they’re just there for the rest of the family so if you can get the rest of the family on there and then maybe let them invite their friends, that’s all they really need
that’s what I’m worried about for mine, they’ve become addicted to the slop
It doesn’t need to be all or nothing for them at first. If you share on it maybe they’ll share some thing there too slowly.
you’ll also need to remember to interact with the platform like you were with them in public, for a few reasons. Plus the Internet could stand to be less harsh
Which allow users to connect with others via their own Friendica server,
Wouldn’t it be helpful to state that you can also sign up at an existing instance? Or is that less encouraged for friendica? I suppose being so personal that would make sense.
Most software developers aren’t interested in being website admins for every Tom, Dick, and Harry. They’re building the software for other people to host websites, not to run a social networking site for you.
It’s not like the phpBB devs are hosting random car enthusiast websites.
Nobody said they are. However, “a great fediverse alternative to Facebook” does not mean, in the minds of most people who might read it: “you could host a website that would serve as a great fediverse alternative to Facebook.”
I think that it’s a pretty reasonable assumption that intersection of people familiar with alternativeto and the people interested in seeking Facebook alternatives on the fediverse are also more than capable of spinning up a friendica instance on an rpi
Honestly not sure if the concept of Facebook was so great to begin with actually…
I loved the original idea. You’d join with a college email and you got to find other people at your school. Once they opened the flood gates it was never the same.
A platform to communicate specifically with IRL friends?
That’s called a group chat.
A group chat…on what platform?
Email
That modern? Not carrier pigeon or calling card delivered by one’s gentleman’s gentleman?
The family stone tablet
…users can also use Friendica as a publishing platform to post content to Google+, Google Buzz, WordPress, Tumblr, GNU-social, and Libertree.
Well, that’s a hell of a pitch. I hope the codebase gets updated more frequently than the blurb.
What about MySpace and Friends Reunited?
Also a hell of a pitch.
Have they figured out how to make access-controlled posts (i.e. friends-only, or for specific subgroups) work with ActivityPub federation, or are all your posts public and visible to anyone, as on Mastodon? If people are going to start using this platform, there will need to be an option for making posts visible only to friends (and “followers only” is not a viable alternative).
I’m not sure how functional it is but this is what I get when creating a post.
The software might be, but what makes a social network is the network effect, and the biggest public english friendica server has a few hundred users.
I had an account in like 2016, but it got deleted after a few months due to inactivity…
Friendica is federating with Mastodon etc. and also Lemmy etc.
Seems to with work with Mbin as well
Friendica is starting to seem like a fantastic option to serve as a hub account to the fediverse! There’s a reason people liked Facebook at one point, and I think they’re on the right track to advancing the idea with less corrupting influences
Friendica is part of the fediverse and can talk to mastodon, lemmy etc. Plenty of users out there
Does it much in practice though? I’m on mastodon and Lemmy a lot, and don’t see any friendica accounts out and about…
You wouldn’t know them if you did see them. They look like any other account
