I agree.

Of course, today Friendica is the most suitable software for managing local communities, thanks to the support of Activitypub groups and event calendars, in addition to the possibility of managing accounts shared between multiple users.

However, it must be recognized that it is a cumbersome and counterintuitive interface. If you want to create a project of this kind based on Friends, you must plan for continuous support from the administrators.

At the moment I would not exclude Friendica, but I would also evaluate other solutions:

Lemmy

It is not a social network and users cannot follow other users but can only follow communities. However, it is probably the easiest software in the Fediverse and is made specifically for creating communities.

Mbin

The interface is still dramatically confusing, but users can also follow other users. If it were possible to modify the interface and make it more pleasant, it could be a great option.

I love Friendica and I manage a Friendica instance that is developing very well. It is a feature-rich software, certainly the most complete software among the social networks of the Fediverse. However, I do not hide from you that it has several defects of an ergonomic nature that do not facilitate its adoption. It is not a point and shoot social network, like Mastodon, but it requires a bit of patience. The learning curve is steep and the mortality of users is very high, but if you get past the initial phase of disorientation, it becomes impossible to do without it. So remember that the most important requirement for using Friendica is not to be in a hurry! In my opinion, you are right to invite your friends, acquaintances and family who frequent Facebook, but do not expect their enthusiasm. And for those who mainly use Twitter, I recommend that they go to Mastodon! Finally, I hope that you will like a guide to Friendica that I have prepared in Italian, which should be easily translatable with any automatic translator

https://www.informapirata.it/2024/07/25/w-la-friendica-che-dio-la-benedendica-la-guida-al-facebook-del-fediverso/

I agree that it is an exceptional software, perhaps the best of the Fediverse, but it has a terrible name. The reason for this name was to mark a continuity with the first potentially federated social network, namely “identi.ca”

Moreover, despite the name, it is not a really friendly software, but presents several ergonomic complexities. Finally, I add that when I pronounce it with my dictation system, it is always transliterated as “free handicap”, which is a very inclusive thing, but every time I have to correct it… 🤣

This is also why I decided to call my instance with a different name such as Poliverso, Too bad that a few months later Zuckerberg decided to launch his failed Metaverso project, which is why every time I have to explain that I did not call it that to parody the Metaverso 🤬

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It is a framework, but also a software already working and usable to create a social and some document sharing modules. And in the future it should also have something more like Kanban boards or a sort of marketplace

Thanks for the mention. This is a very interesting and informative page for all users of the fediverse

God likes voluntary suffering

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You’re right, sorry 🤦‍♂️ 🙇‍♂️ : the federated instance was threads.ruin.io, not threads.net

Yes, I think so too, but it is a choice that is up to the administrators because it can have dramatic repercussions on the maintenance of the server

Um… that’s not what it looks like from the relevant page: https://sh.itjust.works/instances

Now I understand: I thought that federating Threads was a deliberate choice, but it was probably an incidental phenomenon simply due to the large numbers managed by your instance.

Probably one of the ten Instagram executives who have a federated profile has tried to search for one of your contents. Or he found the message of a followed user who participated in one of your threads in his Timeline. Or they are simply experimenting with your instance…😁

Of course you are right (sorry, but in my message I wrote federata instead of defederate)

I understand your choices well. We have made an internal evaluation on the opportunity to federate Threads with our instances: with the mastodon poliversity.it instance we decided to silence Threads; with the Friendica poliverso.org instance we used the newly introduced functionality to obfuscate all the personal data of our users towards Threads; with the Lemmy feddit.it instance, however, we decided to leave the federation to try to allow Italian Threads users (feddit.it is an Italian-speaking instance) to use activitypub groups and discover the “free Fediverse”

Yes, but I can’t “find” Threads content from Lemmy.world

In reality, any user can force federation by simply searching for the handle of a user or content of the fedeverse from the search box of their instance. This method always works unless the instance has been previously defederated.

The problem is that from feddit.it I can’t “find” the contents of Threads (and not even from lemmy.world), even when they are those of the ten Instagram executives visible from mastodon.social and from any other instance that has not defederated Threads

I’ll also try to mention admins @jelloeater85@lemmy.world @Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world @Rooki@lemmy.world and @kersploosh@lemmy.world

I will take a bigger look at it now

Very good. I’m glad I was able to spark your curiosity! 😅 Sometimes, good ideas can hide even behind the worst interfaces and the most obsolete technologies… 😁

Had a look, seems like facebook–ish UI but 10 years ago. Correct?

No, that’s not correct at all! 🤦🤦🤦

Friendica is the most beautiful and powerful social media software in the Fediverse: it can make you write long, formatted posts with in-line images, with title or without title, it can publish scheduled posts, it can make you follow websites with RSS feeds , Diaspora and GNU Social profiles, it has a connector for Bluesky and TumbIr, it can manage circles like Google+, it can manage public ActivityPub groups (basically like Lemmy communities) but also private ones, it manages activitypub events like those of Mobilizon and Gancio.

The development is continuous and always cutting edge and the developers are pretty smart!

Unfortunately it has two problems that compromise its success:

• the lack of an iOS app
• a painful web 1.1 interface reminiscent of the original Facebook, but unfortunately the development staff no longer has any professional graphics. In reality it would be enough to adapt the soapbox interface (not everyone knows that it is possible to manage a friendica account through the soapbox interface!), but this is a bit of a sore point…

If you want to undertake the development of new Fediverse software, I recommend you take a look at Friendica and, if possible, also Misskey, Bonfire and Kbin; however in the Fediverse it is also important to try to reinvent the wheel, because the diversity of ideas is the true richness of the Fediverse

That’s true, In fact in this thread I can do it. The problem is that I can’t do it where the original post we are commenting on was published (the one that was crossposted here by the Wordpress community). In fact, that was written with WordPress and, apparently, even if the WordPress title was corrected after your report, Lemmy still can’t receive the change…