Piefed has built-in processes to aid in moving communities to it. See the previous reply from Blaze.
Sorry. I posted this on Mastodon, not expecting it to post into the community. I just wanted to let people know about this. But, anyway, hey dad. I miss you!
When I read the article, it seemed they were very careful not to mention who the 3rd party Cloud provider was who really caused the outage. It was Google Cloud.
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2025/multiple-cloud-services-down-as-google-cloudflare-resolve-issues
When did you try it? The spinning thing was removed about 2 days ago. Did you try more recently than this?
I rarely down vote, but when I do, I don't leave a comment. I can't be the only one.
It's private because there are essentially two of you, and your vote is the anonymous you.
https://piefed.social/post/205362
"PieFed accounts now have two profiles within them - one used for posting content and another (with no name, profile photo or bio, etc) for voting. PieFed federates content using the main profile most of the time but when sending votes to Mbin and Lemmy it uses the anonymous profile. The anonymous profile cannot be associated with its controlling account ..."
Just curious. Have you had trouble loading my-place.social?
They never explained well how to use Friendica, so it's all guessing. But, I believe, to get a Facebook-like experience, you mark people as "Friends" who you want in a Facebook-like environment. This maps to "Friends" on Facebook. Then you click on the "Friends" circle, and you only see posts and conversations from your friends.
You can also set up groups that federate to other instances, and you can control access to the groups. I've never used it, so I don't completely understand how to do this.
But, I think these are the 2 closest Friendica features for Facebook emulation.
https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/groups-and-privacy#groups_and_privacy
The stalls are because the database queries are suboptimal. There is one that occasionally runs that, on my instance (I have 337 active users), can sometimes run for 15 minutes and will lock tables. Everything stalls and backs up.
This query was discussed, and I believe in the next release (but unsure) it will be replaced. Instead of using a ton of "not in" clauses, it does a left join now. In testing, someone mentioned it went from multi minutes to multi seconds to run. But there are a lot more such queries.
I think what Friendica needs desperately is a MariaDB/MySql expert to clean up the queries.
Because Friendica supports groups, you can connect to Lemmy communities. This is what kills Freindica. It just cannot handle the hundreds of thousands of daily connections that come in just from lemmy.world alone. Basically, it then becomes a Lemmy/Piefed/MBIN instance plus a Mastodon instance. The database grows by leaps and bounces, queues back up, and it stalls. CPU pegs without relief.
On mine, I finally had to block the Lemmy User Agent at the Cloudflare firewall. I calculated I would have had to spend another $500/month to allow the server to handle the Lemmy traffic comfortably, excluding the continuing cost for DB space. So far, I haven't blocked Piefed and MBIN, but this could change.
Friendica groups were designed for small private groups or specialized groups. Not public forums. I don't think they ever anticipated someone connecting to Lemmy.world communities and that such groups would become so active. I've told people on my instance that if they want to connect to these groups, they should use Piefed/Lemmy/Mbin, not Friendica.
I haven't looked at the code, but it's standard PHP so probably not terribly hard for PHP developers to get involved.
The developers still work on it, are active in the support groups, and answer questions, but they just can't put in the time they used to. I'm sure they'd be happy if someone wanted to get involved. But, I don't think it would need to be taken over, just helped.
About 2 months ago, I set up a #Mobilizon server to give people a decentralized, ActivityPub connected, alternative to #FacebookEvents, https://my-group.events/
It really pleases me to see that people are discovering it and using it to manage events instead of using big-tech owned centralized corporate controlled solutions. We need to keep making these alternatives available to people.
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You'd think the Republican problem, given 100 years of low life expectancy in Republican run states, would have self-resolved by now.