You’re welcome! And sorry, I expected Friendica to be more known here on the Fediverse 😁

Ordered it in the First batch. They said that the Android App Support is going to be subscription-free for this one, so that’s a plus I guess. Also, calls and texts will be the first for me to try. If they don’t work, then it will be a return.

(not) nice 🙁

Rest In Peace! 🕯️

Fair. Friendica stayed well below the radar for pretty much the entire time, even though it sounded a bit familiar for me when I created this account a few years back, and it is also kinda the oldest platform in the Fediverse.

It has many of the features that regular Facebook has, like creation and attending to groups (even this Lemmy community is displayed as a group) as well as events and pages, but also some extra stuff non-privacy related like following RSS feeds directly, as well as supporting BB Code for formatting your text pretty much everywhere (in your posts, comments, in your profile descriptions or in the event descriptions). Not only it supports ActivityPub, but it also supports Diaspora and RSS (as said) and Tumblr and Bluesky (if you have an account there). Server admins can also install add-ons which add all sorts of extra functionality - from compatibility with other networks (with Tumblr, Bluesky or WordPress) to stuff like content filter or collapsing posts if they are not displayed in a language of your choosing (stuff that Facebook, again, doesn’t have).

And of course, it is not owned by Meta, nor it has the privacy invasive features of it, nor it does spy you across the web whether you have an account on it or not, nor does it pump billions into failed projects like the Metaverse only to later pull the plug, nor it invests into AI projects or spy glasses.

If you’re more curious about it, I wrote a handy guide myself here a while ago (I’m not involved into the development of it, but this was the best way I could contribute - and sorry for the Google site). There’s a server list here where you can pick your server (if you want a recommendation, pick friendica.world for the largest server, or loma.ml for a bigger selection of add-ons) and a video guide on both YouTube and [https://peertube.stream/w/p/4K4MWYXMEYUtVDqKjjq4Uu?playlistPosition=1]PeerTube](https://peertube.stream/w/p/4K4MWYXMEYUtVDqKjjq4Uu?playlistPosition=1) if you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed. And there’s a support group at !helpers

One of the other advantages Friendica has over Facebook: they’re not paying outright nazis to post on the platform.

Yeah, xmpp is a great protocol, but everyone needs to be in the vicinity of the server

I’m also thinking about the possibility of blocking/hijacking the network by the law enforcement forces. If every device is also a node connecting to each other, they can be more hardly taken down I think.

meshtastic

I’m not so familiar with meshtastic, but wouldn’t be more helpful to have something that actually runs on people’s phones instead of having a separate device? I mean, as you said, everyone has phones, and with something like the Ripple app (or any other panic button app) you could hide the app or clear its data (or you could do it manually). With meshtastic, in the event of a search, I think you would be more suspicious, I think.

I frankly think there should be something like a Bluetooth-based protocol allowing for every messaging app to exchange messages, much like #XMPP. Then, even if you block one app, there will be others available that anyone can use with the people that managed to install that blocked app in the 1st place.

It’s weird that it’s not working. I tried opening it in a private window and it opened just fine

Ok so if app stores like f-droid don’t care about the play store catalog

I’m assuming this would be highly debatable. I mean, you do get some of the apps that are in the Play Store. You do not get them from Play Store directly.

Also, apps like NewPipe are on F-Droid too. Not sure how good this will go to Google.

@solbt saving this

All hail @jolla and @ubports I guess…

This is the final nail in the coffin for an otherwise such a great product. Never going back I guess…

Here in the rest of the world that doesn’t use miles for distances, having to use something other than your phone’s SMS/RCS app (that goes through your carrier) has been a norm for quite a while.

You can clearly tell that this is news mostly for the US audience (who also uses stuff like voicemail instead of calling again - who the hell even listens to their voicemails?).

Moving past the obvious slurs in your comment, those migrants might actually get more of a red carpet treatment - sorry to spoil your vengeful dreams. In part because they are who they are, but also because of the spoken language making it easier to get higher paid jobs, probably at multinational corporations too (English is pretty commonly spoken as a foreign language, so it’s not so well paid and sought as other foreign languages, but if that’s your native language you’re definitely getting an edge over the locals).

Patriots (also called sovreignists here in Romania) will do what they do the best: label them as sexo-marxists invading our country and too snowflake to stay with Trump. But outside those pricks, people here are very open towards migrants.

We have an ongoing collective memory of us taking the road to the West after the fall of communism, along with all the hardships we faced, and the fair treatment of migrants is, from my experience, pretty well promoted publicly (at least so far).

If the far right gets in power in two years from now, which is highly likely given the current political situation, things might take a turn to the worse. But until then, the orchestra is singing on the Titanic.

And as a personal opinion, I think it’s wrong to put all the American migrants in the same pot. I think the people leaving the US behind are exactly those who saw the things coming, who understood what Project 2025 was about and did all they could to prevent this from happening. Throwing them in concentration camps similar to those in El Salvador, degrading them or being xenophobic to them in any way will teach them no lesson and will definitely teach the usual MAGA supporter no lesson, or at least not the lesson you’re looking for. I’m rather pro treating these people well, especially since (despite all the shortcomings), during these whole decades when America was truly free, it represented a safe haven for people looking to escape prosecution in their homeland, especially due to their etnicity or religion. So taking these people as they themselves flee from political prosecution is more of an acknowledgement of the role the free America had on making the world a better place, sometimes even helping make entire countries free and independent from other countries.

@calm_bomb yeah, I added a title to it, so Mastodon treated my post as being an article in itself. Here’s the actual link: edition.cnn.com/travel/central…

damn…

Or with Lemmy. I view it perfectly fine in Friendica

I went with Kvaesitso as well, but if you, @Grail, cannot get used to it do give Lawnchair a try. It currently seems like the most developed AOSP based FOSS launcher.

A while ago, I was arguing with someone (if I’m not mistaken) about how AI is incompatible with politics, law and democracy due to the nature of the whole process involved in writing laws. Now I notice that this is exactly the point. AI’s purpose has never been democracy. Democracy, as Peter Thiel and his followers argued, is an obstacle in the front of tech’s development, in the front of profit, of capital. As such, the logic solution is to get rid of it - and that’s exactly what Trump is doing.

I didn’t ask you how they shouldn’t get it. I asked you how they should. Like, only one way. Because even on Android, the average user is not gonna use F-Droid and using an apk file is simply not practical for many. Sure, you get users, but if your goal is to make it easier for the majority of the people, they sure as hell will not download F-Droid just for one specific app. Besides that, it is also a market opportunity. I’m sure the devs of these apps also make some good money on these.

As for Apple… sure, there is AltStore, but how many people are using it yet?