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!
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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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