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Short video that show what Friendica can do
There are many #Friendica fans, and for good reason. Once you get past the learning curve from the difficult UI, you get to appreciate the extra benefits of built-in #Bluesky, #Lemmy/#Piefed/#MBIN, #Tumblr, and #RSS feed integration. It also has #Diasporia integration and some other protocol integrations. Of course, it's also a #Mastodon alternative.
Nobody ever mentions Friendica as being a #Threadiverse app, but it has Groups, which is built-in Threadiverse capability. If you follow a Community on Lemmy/Piefed/MBIN, for example, it gets categorized as a group and is placed into a separate section for the groups you are part of. Then you can read and post in the Group (Community/Magazine) just like you would on a Threadiverse application. You can also create public and private groups.
And there is no need to use a Bluesky bridge if the Friendica instance you are on has the integration turned on.
Here's an excellent 5-minute video showing Friendica created by @earthman@my-place.social for those interested in seeing how it works.
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....the law and order president.....
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Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht
Trump said he had called Ulbricht's mother to let her know that he had granted a full and unconditional pardon to her son.BBC News
Oil down as Trump moves on trade, energy
U.S. President Donald Trump signs documents as he issues executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House on Inauguration Day in Washington, U.S., Jan. 20, 2025. Carlos Barria | ReutersU.S.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Smallpox once killed over 500 million people.
Thanks to efforts by the WHO that was strongly backed by the US, smallpox was eradicated by 1980.
The US recoups their investment every 26 days in money not spent on administering further vaccinations and treating new cases.
Withdrawing from the WHO will cost the US dearly in terms of money and lives.
The best way to make America healthy is by working together with the world on our shared goal of eliminating diseases that affect us all.
Grossi claims Iran must address nuclear concerns with Trump
“There was an agreement that existed before President Trump decided that was not the path he wanted to follow,” IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi was quoted by Bloomberg as saying in Davos on Tuesday.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Probably Ruining a Keyboard For Science
Lubing your keyboard’s switches is definitely a personal preference, though we’re sure that many would call it absolutely necessary. However, people from both camps would probably not suggest is using …read more
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Probably Ruining A Keyboard For Science
Lubing your keyboard’s switches is definitely a personal preference, though we’re sure that many would call it absolutely necessary. However, people from both camps would probably not s…Hackaday
U.S. expands expedited deportations beyond border areas as part of Trump crackdown (Camilo Montoya-Galvez/CBS News)
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U.S. expands expedited deportations beyond border areas as part of Trump crackdown
Expedited removal allows U.S. immigration officials to deport migrants who lack proper documents through a streamlined process that bypasses the lengthy and massively backlogged immigration court system.Camilo Montoya-Galvez (CBS News)
Interview: Naomi Klein
"The end of the bombs does not mean the end of the genocide, unfortunately.
"Gaza is a crime scene.
"I don't think we've really understood what the Nazis were originally. We in Europe & in North America treated them as a rupture, instead of as a continuation of the ideologies of settler colonialism."
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‘The Exceptions Have Become the Rule.’ Naomi Klein on Trump, Gaza and the End of the ‘Liberal Order’ - DAWN
Award-winning author and journalist Naomi Klein speaks to Democracy in Exile.Omid Memarian (DAWN)
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Underwater at 47%!
Trump Begins With A Historically Low Approval Rating
At 47%, Donald Trump's approval rating sits well below the average approval rating of incoming presidents.
His first day executive orders angered even his own supporters.
Republican congressmen tried to evade questions on Trump's actions or simply said they were "Trump's perogative".
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews
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This Pennsylvania County Wiped Out Millions in Jail Debt - Bolts
After Dauphin County ended the practice of charging people while they’re detained in jail, Commissioner Justin Douglas pushed it to forgive more than $65 million in lodging fees.Michael Barajas (Bolts)
I want to in house most of my SaaS services. this is one of my reactions to what is going on.
Anybody have a great self hosted solution for Pocket, Readwise, and Goodreads?
I don't want "apps" I want something I can stuff in a docker container and run from a linux box.
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Impact of Ross Ulbricht’s Release on Cryptocurrency Markets | Flash News Detail
On January 22, 2025, the cryptocurrency market experienced a significant event with the release of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road, as announced by Paolo Ardoino on X (formerly Twitter) at 10:45 AM UTC (Ardoino, 2025).BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
An Israeli soldier faces a Palestinian ambulance worker in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank on January 21, 2025, where Israeli forces killed 10 people and wounded dozens, including doctors and nurses [Raneen Sawafta/Reuters]
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Not shocked
Not awed.
Not caving.
Not scared.
Not blinking.
Not packing it in.
Not coming to heel.
Not building bridges.
Not extending grace.
Not asking permission.
Not accepting the lies.
Not quitting.
Ever.
#RMOL
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in reply to Jerry on PieFed • • •Probably because the second sentence of your own post intending to promote it was an immediate concession that the UI sucks. “It’s great once you get past how bad it is” isn’t a great pitch.
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in reply to ZoDoneRightNow • • •Jerry already caught me up.
To those who haven't heard it before, it sounds like a way to note that Threads can interope with the Fediverse, now (I can see people who were super excited about Meta joining doing that).
Maybe it being capitalized also made it the first thing my brain jumped to.
In any case, I was mistaken and just hadn't heard of the term before; just ignore my original comments, basically: they're wrong.
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in reply to Jerry on PieFed • • •Here's my problem with a facebook replacement.
I don't like facebook. Now lets take away all the spying, and data collecting. Lets take away all the corruption. Lets take away the politics. Lets take away the ads. Lets take away everything that most people assosiate with facebook being evil. Lets look at facebook as purely what it claims to try to be. A socizl media gathering place to post pictures of your life. Connect with friends. Post stories. Read others posts. All that.
Lets take facebook at that face value, and only that. Ok? Everybody on the same page? Cool.
I still don't like facebook. Even without the other stuff, I'm just not the type to document and share my life.
So I start to think about that stuff we excluded earlier. All the evil bullshit. And I realize that my mom and sisters all use facebook. So logically it would make sense to introduce them to frendica, right?
Here's the issue. I look at what my mom would use facebook/frendica for. She uses it to stay in touch with her sewing friends/groups. People she's spent 40 years sewing vario
... show moreHere's my problem with a facebook replacement.
I don't like facebook. Now lets take away all the spying, and data collecting. Lets take away all the corruption. Lets take away the politics. Lets take away the ads. Lets take away everything that most people assosiate with facebook being evil. Lets look at facebook as purely what it claims to try to be. A socizl media gathering place to post pictures of your life. Connect with friends. Post stories. Read others posts. All that.
Lets take facebook at that face value, and only that. Ok? Everybody on the same page? Cool.
I still don't like facebook. Even without the other stuff, I'm just not the type to document and share my life.
So I start to think about that stuff we excluded earlier. All the evil bullshit. And I realize that my mom and sisters all use facebook. So logically it would make sense to introduce them to frendica, right?
Here's the issue. I look at what my mom would use facebook/frendica for. She uses it to stay in touch with her sewing friends/groups. People she's spent 40 years sewing various quilts and projects with. It's like a book club, but instead of reading and discussing books, they all sew things and share their teqniques.
So I'd have to convince not only my mom to switch, but also all 40+ of her sewing group crew. Then I'd also have to convince the 200 or so OTHER people she's connected with because "oh, I used to know you in the 1960s when I lived in another state, but now I can reconnect with you and share stuff because the internet and facebook exists!"
THEN I'd need to convince her that facebook is bad. Because without a problem, even if I did manage to get all 250ish people to use friendica, why would they make the switch if they're already on facebook?
YOU see the problem, and I see the problem.....but they won't. Facebook as it is, from their eyes, is working just fine.
And thats my issue with friendica. It's there to solve a very real problem, that nobody is asking to fix.
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in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •You don't need to convince everyone to switch. You need to convince some people go join and build the user base.
Once there are users, more people will join. Even if people are not active, if they have an account it's easier to convince someone to add you.
Think of it as a long term goal.
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in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •"I'm not the type to comment and review books, and the people I do know who do that are old, so BookWyrm is solving a problem nobody asked to fix."
Maybe there are people, younger and more ideologically devoted to non-corporate services than your mom, who do like to share their lives with a limited set of friends and would like a service without all the evil stuff.
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in reply to Jerry on PieFed • • •My biggest issue with Friendica is that the very top thing I want social media for is to share photos and videos in a private way with friends and family. Of you have to upload your video to YouTube before posting the URLthen that is a terrible experience.
Facebook lets you just grab your photos and vidros and upload them to your post. It automatically converts them from the 200MB+ per minute file your phone made into a 40MB per minute file, so people watching on their phones don't chew through their data allowance or be unable to play it due to slow internet. It shows the photos in a seamless galley.
I would be willing to put up with almost any other issues if this part was a seamless and user friendly experience, of which no self-hosted Facebook replacement (federated or not) that I have seen can do.
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in reply to stormio • • •I don't use Friendica as a feed reader, but I have heard from many people who have had positive experiences with it and enjoy using it.
This contains also an experience report about it: The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 3: Friendica)
The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 3: Friendica)
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in reply to Jerry on PieFed • • •@Jerry on PieFed Interesting, but the video shows a completely different way of using #Friendica than I use it.
This is mainly about the newsfeeds, that - which is one speciality of Friendica - can integrate many different protocols, so that there are connections not only to the Fediverse in the narrower sense (= Activity Pub), but also to Bluesky, Tumblr, Threads, Diaspora etc.
In contrast, I am only interested in the Fediverse connections (in the broader sense, i.e. including Diaspora).
The other side (which I find more interesting) is Friendica's advantages, how you can actively interact from Friendica and how you can create your own content, and structure received content + , the good way Fediverse content is displayed,.