This is good growth for such a smaller lesser known fedi project that replaces Facebook.
I had a Friendica account like 10 years ago. Kinda sad to hear it’s only 2.500 active users.
Requiring people to create an account just to see anything is a sure way to immediately drive off any potential new users.
Isn’t that what you want for a Facebook replacement though?
I guess being able to browse public profiles and posts would be good, but if it’s like Facebook then wouldn’t most people be using their real names and posting about semi-personal IRL stuff?
You’d want that stuff to only show for your friends, and maybe friends of friends
Stop naming Fedi software with shitty names, you’ll have more people.
And yet the dumbest name of all, the gold medalist of low-IQ nomenclature itself (Whatsapp) is literally more popular than telephones.
Have to disagree, WhatsApp is a great name, maybe the best named app of this entire generation of software.
For me it oozes cringey 2010-era hype about this newfangled buzzword “app”, which also doesn’t even rhyme with “up” except to the obviously non-native developers who clearly thought it did. Etc. We will agree to disagree!
Ah but even coming from a native speaker, it just flows so smoothly and feels just like saying what is arguably now the most common greeting said in English. To me it’s like the word “app” is hiding itself right in the most natural greeting, the greeting also being a symbolic distillation of the app’s purpose - there’s an elegant, simple symmetry to it in my ears, the opposite of buzzword cringe!
But hey, opinions and assholes eh? Taste is so subjective lol. Just glad they didn’t name it iWhatsApp, then we’d agree and be big mad
Obviously you’re totally wrong but have an upvote for creative expression.
Just a reminder that there’s more non-native English speakers than native ones.
Don’t we know it.
I’ve been looking for a Facebook alternative. It was either Diaspora or Friendica.
Is Friendica more popular? What are some of the most popular/stable instances with the lowest chances of disappearing?
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Diaspora* only supports diaspora protocol. It has about a few thousands MAU I’d say. If you use it you can interact with Diaspora* users and with Friendica/Hubzilla users from servers that have the diaspora addon. You can see a list of Diaspora* pods here.
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Friendica on the other hand natively supports ActivityPub, and has addons for BlueSky, Diaspora* and Tumblr (Not all servers have them enabled). It has 3k MAU, but you can communicate with much wider range of folk. There’s also the Friendica directory, allowing you to find interesting folk to follow much more easily. If you want a stable instance I can recommend https://friendica.world/ , it’s managed by the admins of lemmy.world .
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