Yeah, been considering migrating to a non-Mastodon instance. Not sure where, though. Wouldn't mind using Lemmy as my entrypoint to the Fediverse, but I don't think, you can follow individual users here...
I like Calckey the most as it has the best thread view out of all fediverse software. Akkoma is simpler and more lightweight if you prefer that, but I find its thread UI hard to grasp.
I can't really use mastodon for the same reason... I like following interests and communities, not people.
After I follow a few ppl that post a few times a day, it becomes a full time job just to read ppl's posts. I have no idea how so many ppl use the twitter model.
@butter, @Dessalines, I've grown quite fond of Friendica for that very thing, following things, not just people. Not only does it let me follow topics via tags, but things like #lemmy and #guppe get added as "forums", plus I can follow any #RSS or #Atom feed. All of these are added the same as adding any other contact (follow). All of these different ways of following things get listed in the same area of my account, as "contacts", where they can be easily separated into to multiple groups (lists). Each followed hashtag, forum, contact group, or protocol type is always listed down the
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@butter, @Dessalines, I've grown quite fond of Friendica for that very thing, following things, not just people. Not only does it let me follow topics via tags, but things like #lemmy and #guppe get added as "forums", plus I can follow any #RSS or #Atom feed. All of these are added the same as adding any other contact (follow). All of these different ways of following things get listed in the same area of my account, as "contacts", where they can be easily separated into to multiple groups (lists). Each followed hashtag, forum, contact group, or protocol type is always listed down the side of my page where I can simply click on it to filter my current feed.
I know that other #fediverse / #ActivityPub interfaces such as #Pleroma, #Akkoma, #Misskey, #Calckey, #Hubzilla, and #Streams have some/all of these capabilities, each to their own extent. However, having played around extensively with all of them, I've come to find that #Friendica is the one that works best for me. And at the end of the day, this is the only thing that matters. It may be a bit time consuming, but trying all the things is the best (only?) way to see how they'll work for you.
Show different profiles to different people/communities
Privacy with military encryption
Relationship Control (Follow and or share only)
Browse posts by protocol (RSS, Twitter, OStatus, ActivityPub)
Following contacts and hashtags
Themes and Addons
Federation to Diaspora, Mastodon, Pleroma, Hubzilla, GNU Social, WordPress, Nextcloud, Pixelfed, PeerTube, OStatus, ActivityPub, Twitter, RSS, Buffer, etc
Panel for User- and Systemadministration
Timelines
Network Timeline – Posts of your contacts or post of the hashtags you are following
Profile / Personal wall – Posts that you have created
Community Page – Posts that are available on your node, consisting of public posts created from users of your node and public posts of contacts or hashtags users of your node are following
Different sorting views
Groups – you can put contacts in individual groups to just read their posts
Comments and multiple posts are collapsed to the most recent (these may be expanded)
Posts & Status Updates
“Unlimited” text length – many sites will allow up to 200k characters per post.
Rich text supported – bold, italics, decoration, color, size, etc
Suggest / recommend existing friends to other friends
Themes, Addons & Apps
Different Themes (Frio, Vier, DuopuntoZero ..)
Stylesheets / Schemes to change the default look of some Themes (dark, light, colorfull, etc)
Addons – FromApp, ShowMore, etc
Addons – Twitter, Tumblr, GNU Social, pump.io, libertree, Blogger, WordPress
Supports ‘Apps’ which are third-party plugin applications such as games or utilities
Email contacts and communications supported (two-way) via IMAP4rev1/ESMTP
OpenID Support
Gravatar Support
OExchange link sharing supported
Portable Contacts Webstandard provides informationwiki. about friends between allowed sites using a standards-compliant format.
OpenSearch provider interface for supported browser search engines
Mobile & Third Party clients
Basic Twitter/GNU Social API provides easy access from a growing number of mobile and third party applications (Twidere, AndStatus, Bitlbee, Choqok, Frentcl, Gwibber, Hotot, IdentiCurse, Pidgin/Purple, Mustard, Pino, TTYtter, and more)
Clients for Android, SailfishOS and Windows
System & Administration
Decentralized architecture with no central authority or ownership
Member directory, that respects all your individual privacy settings
Administration interface with site settings, addon administration, log file management and member management
Public Community page as a site representation provides recent public posts from across the site (respects all privacy controls)
Server-to-server encryption Support
Optionally “expire” old content after a certain period of time. The content is also removed from all other Friendica servers which might be holding a copy
Language selector (or automatic detection) with a growing list of supported translations
Message queuing and redelivery for reliable communications
It is a little weird that everyone here seems to be a communist. Does the platform attract the mindset or does the mindset gravitate to the platform? Just something I've noticed...
It's a bit of both, but it's also instance specific. Most of it comes from lemmygrad, because there is a lot of cross federation between users and groups on lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. On a smaller instance without much interaction with lemmygrad, you won't see the same scenario
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in reply to Ephera • • •Akkoma is simpler and more lightweight if you prefer that, but I find its thread UI hard to grasp.
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It's very light, though.
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in reply to casey is remote • • •I used Mastodon for a brief moment, but I had a hard time with the "Twitter" of it. I'm not used to following people, I like to follow Topics.
I don't know any of the other hashtags you mentioned.
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After I follow a few ppl that post a few times a day, it becomes a full time job just to read ppl's posts. I have no idea how so many ppl use the twitter model.
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in reply to Dessalines • •@butter, @Dessalines, I've grown quite fond of Friendica for that very thing, following things, not just people. Not only does it let me follow topics via tags, but things like #lemmy and #guppe get added as "forums", plus I can follow any #RSS or #Atom feed. All of these are added the same as adding any other contact (follow). All of these different ways of following things get listed in the same area of my account, as "contacts", where they can be easily separated into to multiple groups (lists). Each followed hashtag, forum, contact group, or protocol type is always listed down the
... Show more...@butter, @Dessalines, I've grown quite fond of Friendica for that very thing, following things, not just people. Not only does it let me follow topics via tags, but things like #lemmy and #guppe get added as "forums", plus I can follow any #RSS or #Atom feed. All of these are added the same as adding any other contact (follow). All of these different ways of following things get listed in the same area of my account, as "contacts", where they can be easily separated into to multiple groups (lists). Each followed hashtag, forum, contact group, or protocol type is always listed down the side of my page where I can simply click on it to filter my current feed.
I know that other #fediverse / #ActivityPub interfaces such as #Pleroma, #Akkoma, #Misskey, #Calckey, #Hubzilla, and #Streams have some/all of these capabilities, each to their own extent. However, having played around extensively with all of them, I've come to find that #Friendica is the one that works best for me. And at the end of the day, this is the only thing that matters. It may be a bit time consuming, but trying all the things is the best (only?) way to see how they'll work for you.
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