Hello from Friendica.

How do you feel the platform performs compared to corporate ones?

As a user, I think it still has some way to go to reach parity with Facebook, and some features likely could be impossible to implement as they require tracking and gathering user data en-masse (imo). But it still got a thing or two in its sleeves, and those things also keep me here too, besides the federation, freedom and privacy ones.

For example, I just discovered I can send my posts on email as well to whatever person I want, which makes the whole thing highly usable even if people aren’t there.

There are some bugs that might put people off, and Friendica as a platform might seem to have a higher learning curve too (I really got into it after watching some videos on yt), but this is with all the Fediverse platforms I guess? idk

How do you feel moderation is handled?

I never did moderation for it.

Do you believe the people of Beehaw (admins, moderators and users) could do a better job? If so, then why?

I don’t know tbh 😁

I think UI wise, as being an alternative to Facebook, Friendica is possibly the best Fediverse platform out there, not only are the features and the capabilities (text formatting pretty much everywhere, a calendar with events, RSS feeds straight into your main feed, plugin options etc.), but it just makes it easier to tell if a post that I’m seeing is a top-level or just a comment, if it’s from a group or just posted by a person etc.

My advice would be to try it and see what it is up to. The admin of lemmy.world (and also mastodon.world) also set up an instance on friendica.world, and it quickly became pretty much the no. 1 Friendica instance. 😁

Plus, the devs of the platform are very open to suggestions and provide very comprehensive reasons if they reject a certain feature request.

@mesamunefire The latest find, highly underrated, is @flwwhtrbt (also posting under @PerfectDark on !steamdeck@sopuli.xyz) posts about the latest gaming stuff on Linux and in general. Highly informative imo and not overwhelming with posts.

Then I get my memes from @nonfedimemes and @memes.pixelfed. I also liked @DarthPutinKGB, but it now it appears to have stopped posting.

There’s also my page called @cheamaminerii where I post infrequent updates about the health condition of Romania’s 1st president, Ion Iliescu, charged for crimes against humanity (currently mostly posting about the fact that he’s alive - which is what trăiește means).

There’s also @FoxNews which posts the latest news about foxes. Highly recommended if you want to stay up to date in this regard.

For serious news, some of the journalists I recommend following are @timkmak @kevinrothrock @w7voa @anneapplebaum plus other big publications, which have enabled federation via their Flipboard account, like @BBCNews or which they have an actual Mastodon presence like @theintercept @arstechnica or @Bellingcat

Other creators that I like are @silentbeauties (posting about vintage movies and actors), @Astro_benny (Italian NASA astronaut, posting about all things space) or @notjustbikes (yes, the real one).

Last but not least, there are some bots that reply to you with some various stuff if you tag them:

• @scream
• @bees
• @sandwich

I’m using them as Christmas tree decorations, but you can use them in multiple ways. You can hang them by a string, you can spray paint them and/or put them in a terrarium, etc.

I think they do provide torrents for the stuff they have available to download already. So we know what to do *wink*!

@Gunk Catima

@knokelmaat Happy birthday! 🥳 I’m also trying to make the most out of it. Yesterday I just got my salary and I ate a nice juicy burger in a restaurant I planned to go to for a long time. Was delicious!

@dogerwaul They’ll probably just brand it as a sales platform and not care about sellers anymore. They’ll get some cut from every sale, and along with the ad business they’ll have lots of profit.

@coldsideofyourpillow No worries, thank you!

@SmokeyDope thank you!

You can find good stardicts of just about every dictionary on the internet if you look hard enough

I’m just amazed by this. Can you point me to some of the more common places where one could start? I could really use some new dictionaries 😁

@coldsideofyourpillow Any idea how to get in touch with their support team or something? I created an account a few hours ago, and I still haven’t received the confirmation email.

@noodlejetski Yes, I saw OP said that. I just answered on the question of how I do it at the end.

@lemmydividebyzero I’m sure that there are solutions. But I’m doing it via my regular notes in markdown. I’m just typing the list before I go out or whenever some things finish (like detergent) and they’re right there. Whenever I put something in my cart I just add a checkmark next to it (I make my list using checkmarks next to the items with [ ]).

I actually messed up two Firefox installations because I kinda synced everything 💀 So I get what you’re talking about. I don’t expect it to be massively adopted. Hope not everyone who moved jumped ship to Chrome or another Chromium clone after the whole Mozilla fiasco.

If defaults are sane enough, then explain this: you log into a website, tell the website to remember your credentials, then after you reopen the browser you’re logged out of that website.

Yes, I know it’s cookies, but regular people know so little about it that they’re most likely to not stay after that incident.

Even I did not notice first, as there was no warning about cookies being deleted upon browser closure, so I spent an entire evening reconfiguring it from scratch after I’ve initially set it up. I didn’t mind getting through all the settings, so not a big deal (I would have done this anyway at a later time), but, at least for me, there were still not sane defaults.

@kooltechlord I was just looking into this, as I just changed following the whole Mozilla fiasco. Wonderful!

@foremanguy92_ They probably found no other way to monetize its development.

@tiredofsametab good strategy 😁 thanks!

@Paradachshund they’re also some federated platforms that one can self-host.

Don’t know much about Piefed, but it seems like it has some better moderation tools than Lemmy.

Mbin is a more (old) Reddit-like platform, also federated and self-hostable, which also has microblog capabilities.

Mbin was forked from Kbin sothe ethos of that one was similar.

Lotide is a more spartan bulletin board, kind of like Hacker News (but development of it stopped though).

All of them use the same standard for federation, so you can browse and post to these communities straight from Lemmy.

@LiveLM Oh wow. Great for discovery. /s

Thank you! I will try this way. The issue is that the phone was a Cubot phone, so likely quite obscure to appear on the website.