I really like it, though the UI is a bit “old facebook”. I would have loved to use it for a club I’m in, but it doesn’t seem to have the organisational capabilities I’d need, like user roles and default channels to follow, and stuff like that.
That said, as a single user instance, I don’t have any issues. It is easy to install and keep up to date. And the connectors to other protocols seems to work fine
I interpreted TheLugal as considering the old Facebook vibes as a bad thing - but each to their own!
As you’re using Friendica - Is the old school Facebook aesthetic part of what makes Friendica appeal to you? Did you move there directly from Facebook back in the day?
And if you have been around for a while, what has the recent growth of ActivityPub felt like from your corner of the Internet?
Friendica has been around since 2010 - it is very cool to me that the content we post here might reach users of a platform that was created almost a decade before ActivityPub was specified.
@aasatru@ALostInquirer@TheLugal I got kicked off of Farcebook three years ago for not going along with the Covid-19 Vax agenda. I started a friendica at that time because of all the fediverse software available at the time, it looked the most like facebook. My intent was to provide an alternative platform where you were free to say what you wanted.
Since that time I’ve also put up a Misskey, a Hubzilla, and a Mastodon. I personally don’t like the micro-blogging format, thus I don’t use Misskey or Mastodon much, just enough to make sure they are working. I prefer long format macroblogging because they make actual intelligent discussions possible (even if it is a capability people rarely use), where as microblogging isn’t good for much beyond an occasional snarky remark.
Of the two macroblogging applications, friendica and hubzilla, I prefer friendica because it displays full photos by default and it also makes better use of a wide display (I have a 2560 x 1440 monitor) so I find it more readable.
I also like it’s support for bbcode, which while not 100% complete is still better than most other platforms. The only downside to Friendica is that it is relatively resource intensive. Originally I had it on a six core 3.6 Ghz i7-3850 with 128GB of RAM, but it had a hard time keeping up and responsiveness wasn’t great. Now it is running on a 4.4 Ghz 18 core 36 thread i9-10980xe (the machine will run at 4.8Ghz but not 100% stable) with 256GB of RAM.
Friendica is not that hard on the database however, averaging around 300 tps, and I’ve tested MariaDB and found it, on this hardware, to be capable of almost 14,000 tps, so not straining. Seems the PHP code is just not particularly efficient.
Hubzilla, in spite of supporting more protocols, is quite a bit less resource intensive, and Mastodon and Misskey are very resource light.
Thanks - it’s interesting to hear what brings people to different platforms.
It sounds like there’s a lot of potential in Hubzilla for front-end developers seeking to make it a friendlier experience - from what everyone here is saying the back-end seems pretty solid.
I really like it, though the UI is a bit “old facebook”. I would have loved to use it for a club I’m in, but it doesn’t seem to have the organisational capabilities I’d need, like user roles and default channels to follow, and stuff like that.
That said, as a single user instance, I don’t have any issues. It is easy to install and keep up to date. And the connectors to other protocols seems to work fine
@TheLugal @ALostInquirer If you want an old facebook look, take a look at friendica. friendica.eskimo.com/
I interpreted TheLugal as considering the old Facebook vibes as a bad thing - but each to their own!
As you’re using Friendica - Is the old school Facebook aesthetic part of what makes Friendica appeal to you? Did you move there directly from Facebook back in the day?
And if you have been around for a while, what has the recent growth of ActivityPub felt like from your corner of the Internet?
Friendica has been around since 2010 - it is very cool to me that the content we post here might reach users of a platform that was created almost a decade before ActivityPub was specified.
@aasatru @ALostInquirer @TheLugal I got kicked off of Farcebook three years ago for not going along with the Covid-19 Vax agenda. I started a friendica at that time because of all the fediverse software available at the time, it looked the most like facebook. My intent was to provide an alternative platform where you were free to say what you wanted.
Since that time I’ve also put up a Misskey, a Hubzilla, and a Mastodon. I personally don’t like the micro-blogging format, thus I don’t use Misskey or Mastodon much, just enough to make sure they are working. I prefer long format macroblogging because they make actual intelligent discussions possible (even if it is a capability people rarely use), where as microblogging isn’t good for much beyond an occasional snarky remark.
Of the two macroblogging applications, friendica and hubzilla, I prefer friendica because it displays full photos by default and it also makes better use of a wide display (I have a 2560 x 1440 monitor) so I find it more readable.
I also like it’s support for bbcode, which while not 100% complete is still better than most other platforms. The only downside to Friendica is that it is relatively resource intensive. Originally I had it on a six core 3.6 Ghz i7-3850 with 128GB of RAM, but it had a hard time keeping up and responsiveness wasn’t great. Now it is running on a 4.4 Ghz 18 core 36 thread i9-10980xe (the machine will run at 4.8Ghz but not 100% stable) with 256GB of RAM.
Friendica is not that hard on the database however, averaging around 300 tps, and I’ve tested MariaDB and found it, on this hardware, to be capable of almost 14,000 tps, so not straining. Seems the PHP code is just not particularly efficient.
Hubzilla, in spite of supporting more protocols, is quite a bit less resource intensive, and Mastodon and Misskey are very resource light.
Thanks - it’s interesting to hear what brings people to different platforms.
It sounds like there’s a lot of potential in Hubzilla for front-end developers seeking to make it a friendlier experience - from what everyone here is saying the back-end seems pretty solid.