Some interesting thoughts here. Hashtag search and similar features are more or less useless on small instances, but there are other things to massively recommend them, and you can get around the hashtag problem on a #Friendica instance by following an RSS of the hashtag on a large #Mastodon instance.
And Friendica practically runs on thin air (mine is running on a 2 gig Raspberry Pi with a 256 gig SSD in my TV cabinet).
Setting it up was far harder than it needs to be though. If the work to make this stuff easy to install for someone moderately technically competent was done, then it could utterly revolutionise social media.
I’m honestly a little bit in love with Friendica. You guys on Mastodon may have a slick UI, but you don’t know what you’re missing!
I’m also aware I just quoted something from a non mastodon activitypub platform on another one. I’m a quote-toot sceptic, but Friendica is not Twitter and doesn’t work like it, and it’s going to be interesting to see how diverse social media “types” play with each other when you’re viewing something outside its intended environment.
You can’t migrate using the Mastodon migrate feature, but you can import your follows. For now, I’m using both.
Some mastodon clients don’t work with it at all. Some like Metatext do, but present it as though it’s mastodon. The web interface on a phone looks like this.
Ok, so yesterday I tried to submit a bunch of photos. I'd turned the file size limit up on my #Friendica instance but it was creaking. When I got it to accept, the files were too large to federate.
This is a test with some of the same photos, but much smaller files. Hoping this one will federate properly. Facebook and Twitter marmalise your files when you upload them. Friendica doesn't.
Yeah but an Activity can encapsulate multiple versions inline (which would get transmitted server-to-server by ActivityPub) as well as a link to a version stored elsewhere.
The Guardian are asking about the experiences of Brits living in the EU, post Brexit. They have a form, which I have filled in. My answers are below:
Name*
Sarah
Where do you live? *
Portugal
Tell us a bit about yourself (e.g. age and what you do for a living)
I'm 49. I used to work in IT but now am in the holiday rentals business
Share your experience of life on the continent post-Brexit*
Not a lot has changed. Our old EU residency was no longer valid and we had to apply for new Article 50 residency cards. Portugal was very slow in issuing these and until we got them, we risked being deported if we travelled anywhere else in the Schengen area. A lot of Brits in Portugal are now working towards Portuguese citizenship, to get our rights as EU citizens back. This involves
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The Guardian are asking about the experiences of Brits living in the EU, post Brexit. They have a form, which I have filled in. My answers are below:
Name*
Sarah
Where do you live? *
Portugal
Tell us a bit about yourself (e.g. age and what you do for a living)
I'm 49. I used to work in IT but now am in the holiday rentals business
Share your experience of life on the continent post-Brexit*
Not a lot has changed. Our old EU residency was no longer valid and we had to apply for new Article 50 residency cards. Portugal was very slow in issuing these and until we got them, we risked being deported if we travelled anywhere else in the Schengen area. A lot of Brits in Portugal are now working towards Portuguese citizenship, to get our rights as EU citizens back. This involves having to learn Portuguese to an acceptable level and pass an exam, and the government/EU funded classes have become very popular. I passed my exam last year but need to wait a couple more years before I am eligible for citizenship.
Include as much detail as possible
How do you think you (and the UK) are now viewed? *
Honestly? It seems like the EU has more or less adjusted to the UK not being there and is just getting on with life. We don't think about you that often, and if we do it's usually about how the country has massively weakened itself. Brexit is very much a case "oh, they did that, bit strange, life goes on". While it seems like the UK is still obsessed with the EU, the sad reality is that the EU barely thinks about the UK at all. You aren't that important. Sorry, guys.
@zoeimogen I think if I ever reboot my long-form brain that's what I intend to do. I like the multi-column mastodon-deck style interface better than friendica for small chat things, but I can see how friendica's would work better for longer replies.
Context: my kid is mildly allergic to citric acid and citric fruit. Brings out eczema. And citric acid is in SO many things. And it’s painful checking ingredients lists for it.
This morning I wondered: can my phone OCR the ingredients list and check it?
My first thought was to make a little web app. But there doesn’t seem to be a OCR in web browsers yet.
Now this is interesting. A Fediverse platform developed by Cloudflare that inherently runs on Cloudflare without needing dedicated infrastructure.
The code is open source yet the platform itself is inherently proprietary. It's going to be very interesting how this unfolds given how unpopular Cloudflare is with many Fediverse admins
@Zoe O'Connell says that I need to post something. Here is a dreadful selfie taken in low light with the new @Raspberry_Pi@raspberrypi.social camera module version 3 with no IR filter. Haven't worked out how to do alt text in Friendica.
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Unknown parent • •You can’t migrate using the Mastodon migrate feature, but you can import your follows. For now, I’m using both.
Some mastodon clients don’t work with it at all. Some like Metatext do, but present it as though it’s mastodon. The web interface on a phone looks like this.
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