@Elena Rossini ✏️✨📸 going from Mastodon to Friendica was incredible, like going from a tricycle to an Enduro moto, but if I have to choose one thing that I like the most, it's the fact that I can receive notifications not only when someone interacts with me, but also when someone interacts with the threads I have interacted with.

Then there are the terrible things, like the difficulty of use, but that's another story 😭

@Michael Vogel @Andrea Russo @Elena Rossini ✏️✨📸 I disagree 😅: Friendica's interface isn't the best, but it's fine enough!

I'll start by saying that I love Friendica and that, with poliverso.org, I brought Friendica back to Italy as an instance open to all, when it didn't yet have valid moderation tools.

Personally, I don't think it's worth investing time and resources to improve the web interface of Friendica, a tiny community, with just over 1,500 active users, because the web interface doesn't interest almost anyone and it isn't perceived as a value capable of increasing users.

Moreover, even if a bit confusing, Friendica's web interface has everything you need to exercise complete control over your user experience.

What could be decisive to relaunch Friendica is working on an Android app that can include all the features of what is indisputably the most powerful software in the Fediverse today.

And to do that, it is necessary that this app is aimed at Mastodon users, being compatible with Mastodon, and above all that it makes mastodon users want to try Friendica. How? For example with what is currently missing from all mastodon apps: an ergonomic and intuitive management of Activitypub groups

PS: I am curious to know what users who have known Friendica longer than me and probably better than me think, like @Elena ``of Valhalla'' @Fabio @anubis2814 and @Tio

As @Michael Vogel said, I am working on an app targeting Friendica called Relatica. I need to just bite the bullet and put it in the app stores for real versus just testing. I wrote it in a technology called Flutter so it actually runs on mobile (iOS and Android) and desktop (Linux, Mac, and Windows). DM me and I can send a link to the beta/early access program for Apple AppStore or Google Play store.

gitlab.com/mysocialportal/rela…

@Hank G ☑️ Very gladly.

However, I still think that an app for Friendica has no actually market. But if you make an app for mastodon that is able to support all the features of Friendica you could even create the killer application for the Fediverse!

The real problem is that a well-made app costs 200 man-days and you can only get the necessary resources by getting financed by the Mastodon user community (or by looking for European NGI funds)

@Michael Vogel @Fabio @Tio @Elena ``of Valhalla'' @Andrea Russo @anubis2814 @Elena Rossini ✏️✨📸

My favorite feature was groups, both private and public. They create small safe spaces and large open themed areas.

I launched it to get a small community off Facebook groups, it did not work. Most complained that there was no phone app. There is real difficulty in getting groups to move together. It usually requires a catalyst.

I’d love to see Mumble integrated as an option to allow for voices coms in groups easily.

@Elena Rossini ✏️✨📸

I'm on nerdica.net friendica instance. i'm not too familiar with groups or channels. i also unable to vote in mastodon polls for some reason. I am using android app 'Fedilab' for my daily driver as i find the UI better UX, the boost/reshare is obvious on the app, in the web version, i don't know which icon is the boost/reshare and have to go through the icons to find it. Also, fedilab has built-in libre translation service for translating a toot into my language.

#Friendica #TheFutureIsFederated #Fediverse

@Matthias ✔ @M6G actually, I add the > to make the quote clear even to old Mastodon versions, which can't read Friendica formatting.

The > is used to quote in Markdown formatting, not in BBCode... 😅

I don't use nor install the #playstore.
OK, I could use the aurora app of the f-droid store or APKpure.

btw
f-droid.org is as important as the #fediverse in my opinion.
It's my first reference for any app to know if it's ledgit or not. So publishing the #APP their first boosts #f-droid and the FOSS community too.

> that G+ stole elements and ideas from diaspora. When G+ died many left for diaspora. Friendica still has way more features though

Looks like Threads was kinda the next step in this regard.

@anubis2814

> Its actually been claimed that G+ stole elements and ideas from diaspora.

True, D* calls it "aspects".

> When G+ died many left for diaspora.

They actually created even an own diaspora pod (node), pluspora. Even came with their own culture and tried to impose it on the rest .. "a pain in the a**"!
😆

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@_elena @enzoesco @alysonsee

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^Geraspora*