Somebody created a Facebook like UI for Friendica called Bookface (expand for pics&more info)
https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2767-8cc2-fb11-195661967242
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Looks promising! Giving Friendica an UI of this century
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Time to switch Grandma?
She’ll probably miss her friends though
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Time to do a migration tea drinking afternoon
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@Blaze @morrowind Unpopular opinion: Facebook until around 2016 or so (whenever it added stories for the 1st time) was the best social network in terms of UI and concept. It's just Zuck that decided to just copy everyone, every single feature, cram everything in a single website and gobble all user data (and now he's also supporting Trump and free speech). Oh, and the ads. The stupid ads getting you everywhere.
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Not sure it’s that unpopular to be honest
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Google+ was better. The concept of “circles” being the primary way of interacting with people was ingenious and far better represents how real people interact. My fencing friends are not the same as my RPG friends who are not the same as my family.
Facebook adopted this with “lists”, but they’re not treated as the core part of the experience that G+'s Circles were, so they don’t get used.
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I’ve put everyone on a list but there have been times Facebook has made it hard to even post only for that list
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Damn. I can’t imagine having enough people in my life to make lists.
There’s something wrong with me though. I’ve spent most of my life alone and my biggest fear has always been centered around being asked to leave my space.
Of course when you get older that gets harder. I’m lucky at the moment. I’m a stay at home dad who goes to spend time working on various projects with my uncle when I’m free.
If he died tonight I’d have no social life at all.
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Some of the lists are very small. It was very much inspired by Google+ and I did it so I could easily post things relevant only to certain groups that might not be relevant to others or that I wouldn’t want others to see.
I suppose I do have a lot of “friends” on Facebook, but I’ve also been on the platform for 20 years as of this month or next. I joined back when it was less than a year old and you had to be a university student, and back then you had to be at a university that was supported by the platform. You could list what dorm you were in and your class schedule, which made it easy to find other students in your class, helpful if you’d missed a class or something. It was actually really useful in an era when college classes were just starting to make more use of online tools. In that era it made sense to add a lot of people.
I’ve purged the list a few times, and I could probably go through it again. The vast majority I haven’t seen in years, and there are plenty I’d probably never spend time with socially. Very few are probably truly “friends” in a deep sense of the word. On the other hand, there have been a few times I’ve looked to see what somebody was up to and discovered they’d deleted me, which was occasionally disappointing. Of course, I’m also not really on there anymore like I used to be, so it might not even matter.
I don’t know how much I’d say something’s really wrong with you. It’s hard to me to say having no friends is better or worse than someone who has hundreds or thousands of “friends.” I think it’s hard to have more than a handful of real friends. It’s also hard as a parent to have time for other friends.
I hope your uncle gets to enjoy a long life in good health, and you’re able to branch out your circle even just a little.
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No offense, but I suggest you talk to a psychologist about this 🙂 I and many other friends did over here, and it really helps to unlock your full potential (everyone has different problems).
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I actually agree 100%.
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She still sees posts from friends? It’s probably mostly minions memes about immigrants by now.
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Remember when America was white except for the hood that we didn’t drive through.
Minions farm remembers.
I can’t believe that gif exists. I expected to find more cheesy confederate minion pics though.
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Her friends have been dead for years. She just sees posts from an AI bot fed with their data now.
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Anybody who gives a rat’s ass about grandma wants to see her hanging out in places that aren’t actively hostile to her, and will at least consider switching.
If they insist on keeping her in places that want to see her come to a bad end just to make a buck, then we can safely stop calling or thinking of those people as friends.
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Just wish there was an iOS app…
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The MAU is growing, it’s likely one developer will be inspired to make one.
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There's Relatica, it's in active development, and it's multiplatform including IOS, but it's in beta right now
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@Fitik @the_boxhead Yep. Look out for updates on Relatica if you're on iOS
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It’s compatible with the Mastodon API, so some of the apps work for it. I was talking to the developer of an iOS Mastodon the other day and they are off checking compatibility at the moment.
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Awesome to see TBH. Friendica is kinda the platform that the Fedi forgot and it might be a better place if it got more love.
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Maybe I should ask here. The reason I’m here is because I’m looking for answers to this. As far as the integration with Lemmy goes, how does it work? Is there a ‘Friendica’ instance that anyone using that platform would be posting and interacting from? And in that case, does it play nicely with the other instances?
I’m pretty new here, probably moving to another instance at some point anyway. And I’ve been thinking of looking into these multi purpose platforms that play nicely with others. Because why not have more features and tools to play with, even if I don’t use half of them. Also heard of mbin, although an in app search for something like “mbin” seems pretty useless.
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I think lemmy is a bit of the odd one out, so far i can interact between mastodon and pixelfed ok, and I can post from mastodon to lemmy, but in lemmy I can’t really interact with mastodon or pixelfed.
If you want a lot more in on profile I’d check out mastodon, I just don’t really get the Twitter style so I never know how to really use it for memes
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@Zero22xx There are multiple Friendica instances. You can check them in the Friendica Directory (in the servers section) or other more global lists of Fediverse servers like the-federation.info, FediDB etc. Friendica has groups too, but besides the !helpers@forum.friendi.ca (or probably even the !fediversenews@venera.social one) they're pretty much lacking activity (you're still free to post anyway, there are plenty of them).
If you need some help, you can also post on the former one by creating a regular post and mentioning the group with "!" or "@". I have also created a megathread with various resources and a small Q&A (it's actually vice-versa tbh, since the Q&A took the most space on it, but I digress) in order to get yourself started: https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2167-82af-600d-9ea129892452
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Made a quick account there to check things out and not sure if it’s entirely the right fit for the particular use case I had in mind. It’s very much inspired by Facebook obviously, which I was expecting but from what I can tell from a quick look, not the kind of Lemmy integration I was hoping for.
I’m going to keep an eye on this place though, so that I can start encouraging friends and family to join once it’s easy and attractive (in terms of content) for anyone to join.
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@Zero22xx It depends. What use case did you have in mind?
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Basically I would be spending much more time in Lemmy communities, and I thought Friendica could be something extra on top to supplement it.
So I would like to be able to browse instances and communities and choose what I want to see and participate in. Either by subscribing or curating a feed or two. I don’t see an obvious way to do this from Friendica yet. It seems like here I need to scroll through a pre existing feed and curate it from there.
But please bear in mind, I haven’t explored extensively yet or read the link you shared earlier, although I have saved that post so that I can get back to it later in my day.
And another small thing for me (that can be easily fixed by styles and apps) is no apparent dark mode.
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Apologies for the second reply. Just wanted to say that I checked out mbin and it’s probably more up my alley personally.
But, I still have a barely used Facebook account because a lot of people in my country are still on it. And I’m going to see if the rumours are true and try to spread the news about Friendica there, hopefully without my post getting removed or account being banned.
And if / when people from there give Friendica a shot, then I’ll give it a proper shot too with them. It’ll just be used for different things than what I use Lemmy for.
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yeah, looking at the federation systems it supports is insane and I really want to try it out honestly
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This awesome because users care about only one thing : no change, ever.
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Now the hard part is to get Friendica to integrate it in its base code, and somehow prompt users upon sign-up to choose their user interface !
I understand though that friendica devs might be reluctant to integrate it if they can’t get assurances that this UI project will be maintained into the future.
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finally, friendica is usable!
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The regular UI looks like out of the 10’s, maybe earlier. And god that default color scheme is awful.
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yeah, that does resemble facebook alot. without the bloat, that is.
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Looks cool, but maybe not put (what could be easily seen as) a racist charicature as a top example.
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@KurtVonnegut What do you mean?
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Wasn’t there a show with “bookface”? At first I was thinking the remake of Arrested Development, but that was Faceblock.
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@jaybone Lol!
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You might be thinking of “FriendFace” from IT Crowd, that was my initial thought when I saw this
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Nah, I didn’t watch IT Crowd. Apparently there’s this knowyourmeme.com/memes/bookface but that’s not what I was thinking of either. Oh well.
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On an episode of Castle, the daughter character was introducing the mother character to the internet, and the mother character says “I’ve now got a page on MyFace.”
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The rounded corners on the “set title” input box (in contrast to the other input fields) bothers me more than it should…
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@thebustinator Guess it's the author is still working on it, polishing it out, but there's a start
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Just don’t follow much on Friendica due to a lack of iOS app. And only had one for android. For it to really take off, we need app development as well. This is a great step though as an easy UI will promote use.
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Yeah I would set it up for my family today if there was an iOS app. How many years has it been out and still no app?
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@scrubbles What do you see as the advantages of an app over a web app?
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Most people like to have the phone app for socials, makes it easy to browse or keep on top of posts more convenient. Honestly, I can’t really think of any social media platform that isn’t app based for this very reason. Goals for success: make it easy to use, engaging, and have an app with a good UI.
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There’s an in-dev app called Relatica for iOS that you can get TestFlight access to. It’s quite good!
gitlab.com/mysocialportal/relatica
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That’s great news! Will check it out.
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Loma.ml is invite only btw
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loma.ml has already installed it server-wide
I can’t see anything without an account and I can’t create an account without an invitation code.
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This is honestly so nice, every “clone” should have a similar interface for ppl swapping to make it easier, I love customization and different interfaces but I was only able to transition to lemmy because of its similarities to reddit, specifically the third party apps
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