Mastodon gets all the attention but Friendica's federation story is actually broader, it speaks ActivityPub, Diaspora, and OStatus in the same node, so your contacts don't all have to be on the same protocol, that interop layer is undersold.
amelius 1 hours ago [-]
I guess that one day soon we will have a Claw that just pumps information between all the different social networks.
IncreasePosts 1 minutes ago [-]
Anyone who wants to do that doesn't need to use AI for it
nozzlegear 51 minutes ago [-]
Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I associate "claws" with bot spam but maybe it means something else.
imperfectfourth 15 minutes ago [-]
what's a Claw
verdverm 12 minutes ago [-]
the "set it and forget it" Ai agents, largely driven by OpenClaw
mxuribe 1 hours ago [-]
Wow, this is a blast from the past! I haven't touched nor done anything on Friendica since like 2014/2015! (Yes, this is one of the grand daddy of the original fediverse social platforms before the name "fediverse" was even a thing...like Gnu Social and status.net old!) Good on them that they're still going strong!
kennywinker 3 hours ago [-]
I’m interested in self-hosting a small social network for my family and close friends. Something to get us off facebook/instagram. If anybody is more familiar with the options, is this what you’d recommend?
kstrauser 42 minutes ago [-]
I’d recommend installing a Pleroma server. It speaks ActivityPub and you can use any of the nice Mastodon apps with it. I've run a Mastodon server for the last 9 years, and wouldn't recommend Pleroma over it for a large many-user instance, but it's relatively tiny and lightweight for a personal server. You can configure it not to talk to the rest of the Fediverse so that it remains your friendly, isolated silo.
kennywinker 17 minutes ago [-]
Pleroma looks to be very twitter-y. I don’t feel twitter is a great model for a small tight-knit group. For a larger less familial group, it’s probably better suited.
Like, i’m thinking photo album sharing (twitter-like makes photos ephemeral, quickly disappearing on the timeline) and conversation (twitter threading has never been strong imo).
embedding-shape 2 hours ago [-]
I have a forum I self-hosted for friends and family, they have their own login I gave them, it typically have 3-4 posts a week or something, at the very least one post from me as I have a "What I've been up to this week" thread. Seems to work out OK, and is probably as private as you can have something on the public internet.
conception 2 hours ago [-]
I tossed together a mattermost server. It’s effectively a slack cove and works pretty great.
throwanem 2 hours ago [-]
It's been a decade, but I had a very similar experience with Mattermost. It would be, if perhaps not where I would end up today, then certainly where I would start looking.
conception 28 minutes ago [-]
Yeah, it’s been pretty seamless and I was able to import the full Slack history into it as well from a previous Slack instance. The only thing I found lacking was a good GIF plug-in, but I was able to cobble one together pretty easily.
jauntywundrkind 1 hours ago [-]
If you also want to host or build interesting social apps, you should definitely do an isolated atproto / Bluesky service!
https://blueskydirectory.com/
As for actually doing this... running a PDS and relay isn't that hard, and the red dwarf web client is online and can be configured to point to whatever appview you want. There's significantly less experience running your own appview, but there are options & folks are happy to help.
kennywinker 42 minutes ago [-]
I’ve used bluesky, and it’s very twitter-like. That doesn’t seem like the best model for a close-knit community. For larger ones, perhaps!
I no longer recommend ATProto, in part because the public by default was a terrible choice. People prefer privacy, not anyone in the world able to read all of their activity. Bolting permissioned buckets on after the fact is not the way, it needs to be core to the protocol design.
Seems like it maybe suffers from the "fiefdom" / portability issue that other platforms struggle with, but I haven't looked closely.
interglossa 3 hours ago [-]
I tried it sometime ago. I liked the interface but haven't found much of a community around it. It is very unfortunate that diaspora did not thrive earlier.
AnonyMD 2 hours ago [-]
I tried to host this a few years ago, but it fell through because there wasn't enough documentation.
I wonder if the documentation is more comprehensive now?
adityamwagh 1 hours ago [-]
Do we even need documentation with LLMs? :)
ripvanwinkle 1 hours ago [-]
The LLMs need documentation
t-3 1 hours ago [-]
The LLMs might be able to put the mythical "the code is the documentation" into practice.
ulrischa 57 minutes ago [-]
Finally one project with php and mysql that I can throw on a cheap shared hosting. No docker of node_modules fuckup
virgil_disgr4ce 2 hours ago [-]
This is one of the least convincing homepages I've ever seen. It doesn't help that there are no x margins at the largest media query. In fact nothing about this page encourages me to spend more than one second looking at it.
prox 37 minutes ago [-]
It seems to be made for nerds (and I say that kindly) and not potential users. It’s way too tech blurb and not enough show what you getting into.
verdverm 14 minutes ago [-]
I think any federated social media that is going to replace the status quo needs to have solid (1) UX (2) privacy as the default
The_Goonies1985 6 minutes ago [-]
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wotsdat 2 hours ago [-]
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Rendered at 16:47:49 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
Like, i’m thinking photo album sharing (twitter-like makes photos ephemeral, quickly disappearing on the timeline) and conversation (twitter threading has never been strong imo).
As for actually doing this... running a PDS and relay isn't that hard, and the red dwarf web client is online and can be configured to point to whatever appview you want. There's significantly less experience running your own appview, but there are options & folks are happy to help.
I no longer recommend ATProto, in part because the public by default was a terrible choice. People prefer privacy, not anyone in the world able to read all of their activity. Bolting permissioned buckets on after the fact is not the way, it needs to be core to the protocol design.
Example: https://freecities.app
Video demos: https://vimeo.com/1141492621/23e8b84b8b
Disclaimer: I built it. Lovingly, over 15+ years.
https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/
Seems like it maybe suffers from the "fiefdom" / portability issue that other platforms struggle with, but I haven't looked closely.