LVL004: Friendica - A Review
This is my review of the Friendica social network, and a follow-up to a previous video I did about the Fediverse. Friendica is my new favourite way to interact with social media, and in this video, I explain why.
As always, my current social media contacts are always on my web site.
For more information about Friendica, see their website.
For more information on the Fediverse in general, this site gives a nice overview.
LVL002: Experimenting with the Fediverse
Detailing my experiments with the fediverse. You can join the services I mentioned using the links below: PeerTube, Mastodon, Diaspora, PixelFed, Also, my current accounts on these services can be found on my personal web site.tchncs
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Tobias
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Hey Jonathan, thanks for the video about Friendica 😃 Glad to hear, that you experience it as light-weight running it from you home-server former notebook.
I have some additional piece of information about the video 😉
You mentioned the fact that one needs to add an abstract with BBCode to get a content warning. Which surely can be done differently in the UI, no question about that. The roots of the "abstract" lies in the projects history. Friendica can be used as a Twitter client of some sorts. Among other things this makes it possible that your postings on Friendica may directly posted on Twitter as well. While Friendica has some restriction to the length of a posting, it is far above the 280 character limit used on Twitter. So Friendica does some semi-intelligent automatic shortening of postings that are too long and adds a link back to the original posting on Friendica. But not everybody is happy with the outcome of the shortening, so the "abstract" BBCode was added to the BBCode tags Friendica supports, allowing everybody to control the short snippet to advertise for their posting on Twitter. Later on Activity Pub got the "summary" field in the meta-information of a posting and as the abstract is kind of equivalent of a summary, Friendica puts the content of the abstract into this field of the meta-information. Which is used as "content warning" by other projects in the Fediverse.
You mentioned the problems with the image upload. True, sadly true. There is an addon called "js_uploader" which allows you to upload more then one image at a time. And, I think especially for the uploading images from an event situation, Friendicas API does support clients that are designed for e.g. Mastodon. So if you have one of these on your smartphone that you've taken to the event and did some photos, you can use that to add the photos to a posting about the event, straight from your phone.
As you don't use the "community stream" feature much yourself, just let me add, that there all the public postings will be shown from either your node (local) or from any other server connected to your Friendica node (global). It makes more sense to have the stream on a node with more then one user, otherwise it basically mirrors that persons network stream.