Jerry

Wow. This is great that you're doing this.

I've done a quick read. It's very nicely done.

I'll look at it in more detail this weekend and follow it. I'll let you know about suggestions.

Great stuff!

It's an acquired taste. Now that I've been using it for months, I prefer it. I like that I have my Bluesky and Tumblr posts completely integrated into my timeline. I can reply to Bluesky posts. When I post something, it automatically gets posted to Bluesky, and Tumblr, if I like. I never go onto Bluesky any longer. Likes and replies from Bluesky are right in with my Mastodon posts and RSS feed posts too. Yes, RSS integrates in as well (obviously you can't reply to them though).

On Mastodon, if someone posts something interesting and I want to see replies and discussions, I can't, unless I remember to go back to the post and look. In Friendica I can click that I want to follow the thread, and it will notify me of the updates, and take me right to the new comment when I click it, it takes me directly to the notification. I love this! If I interact with a post (like it), same thing. It will track it for me. And it does a better job of pulling in replies and responses from all over.

Yeah. Not all good.

I run one of the Friendica servers and it's a problem child. The database grows rapidly and struggles. The database queries urgently need work. Some are super slow. It stalls a lot. The UI is confusing. The developers are not all that active any longer, but still active. The UI is, well, dated.

More info about it here: https://news.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-3-friendica/

https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/768

MUCH better!!

The developers are extremely responsive to good ideas for improvements. I suggest you write this up as an issue at https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues

The downvotes and karma do not stop you from saying whatever you want. It just means you have to say it somewhere else. Hence, you are not censored.

This is fantastic news!

The self-promotion may invite drama. Just today Rimu posted that Piefed is really taking off, along with graphs to prove it, and a link to piefed.social. How would this, technically, not violate this rule; not be self-promotion? Rimu is the lead developer of Piefed. It's his website in the post. Seems to fit. If he posted this as a comment on another site, should they delete the comment?

And where's the line then? Is FOSS software OK because it's free, but software that charges for extra features is not OK? Or is all software OK if not a corporation, or is Signal OK because they are a non-profit corporation? What about Proton and Tuta mail? Would they violate this policy is they told someone who was concerned about privacy in Gmail to check out their products, or is that valid information in the discussion?

I'd leave it out, and I'd take it on a case by case basis and should I decide that I don't like it, which is my right as the one who pays the bill, I'd call it a violation of the advertising policy and be done with it.

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Stating political stances, I think, is inviting fights with the Admin and worse, calls for defederation of the site by people who will misread the intent after putting it through their political lens, and it will somehow become that piefed.social is or isn't a Zionist site, that is or isn't anti-Israel, and is or isn't anti-Semitic, and so on. It doesn't matter what the truth is. The accusations will come, and others with similar lenses will latch on to it.

Wouldn't it have been better for Lemmy if the tanky developers just never publicly said anything political?

I get reports constantly on Mastodon where the same person who has accused people of being anti-Semitic is being accused of being anti-Semitic simultaneously because they are all experts on Zionism and middle Eastern history and politics, and they are all angry. I keep my views to myself (except for my hatred for Trump and his enablers because I want my country back).

No matter how clearly you state it, people will apply your words to their agendas and it will get ugly. I recommend you don't go there.

I'm on the Mozilla VPN which uses Mullvad and I don't see a problem.

Hi. Nope. No problem at all.

This many be true. But, if so, it must not be considered an important issue by more than 50% of the people because it isn't factoring into their votes.

Corrected link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/indian-grocery-startup-kiranapro-was-hacked-and-its-servers-deleted-ceo-confirms/

But, if you're looking for information like when/if it will be back up and what data may have been stolen, forget about it. There is more focus on the drama around the incident than what is most important, at least at this time.