Just like the good old times of internet. When every kid had a hobby and installed a forum software into a shared hosting to spend time with others. "If you build it, he/they will come."

Jami

It is peer to peer, no need to register any number nor email and username isn't mandatory.

Just install, configure and share QR codes to add your contacts.

Friendica needs more love.

It has the potential to be the fediverse app, allowing users to curate content from any other ActivityPub platform in one app only. Do you want to see and interact with communities from Lemmy and photos from PixelFeed? Do you want only Mastodon and PixelFeed? Or Lemmy and PeerTube?

I know you can do that with other platforms, but they maintain their own content visualization, like viewing a Lemmy post in Mastodon looks odd.

I like the idea of separate tabs to see different content the right way.

Also, it's easier to install. I remember the old days when Friendica used to be in Softaculous and other auto installers used in shared hostings.

Data collection doesn’t bother me too much. I’m not going to install their client and all of the behavior trackers that come with it, and my activity pub content is already freely available to query on the internet. If they want it, they already have access to it. Everyone does.

I will be able to follow and see friends' posts and sports teams' posts through Mastodon without needing a Meta account nor install their shitty apps.

All I posted via fediverse is public already, traveling into some obscure instances, so I don't care if Meta uses or shares my public posts.

IIRC there is an open source project for forums communities.

It's called SMF I think.

GIMP makes uncommon things possible, and common things hard.

Now I understand my frustrations.

That's why this is disgusting.

I may be weird, but I like Friendica.

Friend + Ica

Friends, friendly

Like erotica, but friendly.

I need to see those pictures.

Most likely the new internet. That, where every website was created with money in mind.

That's my use.

Also when I want to watch some YouTube video but not to fuck my watchlist history.

I'm interested in that bus.

Kobo has a good support for alternative OS software and they are good.

Same goes with Voyager ( https://vger.app/ ), that was used to create this post.

Voyager is the best PWA I've ever seen.

I do with translations.

Settings - General - Subscriptions - 3 dots menu - Set as default - Default sort

Whatever you put after the '@' mention in the first line of your message to a Lemmy community becomes the post title. Anything below it becomes part of the body text.

Finally I understand this.

We need something more simple compatible with Lemmy for hobbyists and for those who don't want to be all day setting up things every time.

I also was thinking about my own personal instance, because I want to see everything federated and then choose what I don't want to see, but everybody's tutorial is different.

Man, I miss the good ol' times with "upload via FTP, run the "install.ext" file in a browser, setup database credentials and then you have it".

Fediverse needs single-user applications.

I miss the old OpenID way.

We need a very, very simple ID server that everybody should be able to install, even as an app for smartphones and ActivityPub (and others) able to communicate to.

I am also waiting, but for Boost for Lemmy.

In the meantime wefwef works well.