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Friendica


Friendica, why are you like this? 15 years it's been around, it's a super mature platform, it talks to Bluesky, peertube, the micro blog fediverse (mastodon/sharkey etc), the threadiverse (gup.pe, lemmy, piefed & mbin), it has amazing filters, sensible (and customisable) timeline viewing options... It's everything I could possibly want in a fediverse platform...

But somehow, I just struggle to love it...

I'm going to try though!

#friendica

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in reply to Ada

G'day Ada. Would i be right to intuit that this #Friendica instance is closed to new registrations, including ofc for fictitious furball fangy fauna? 🥺
in reply to Droppie

@Droppie So, Friendica...

I love its timeline view and its feature set. But I hate everything else about it. It's also a real dog to run when it gets a bigger user base.

All of those things combined, mean that I've started using it, but I really don't want to open it up and have to moderate yet another space.

I would be open to adding a handful of people, but 1) the userbase would need to remain small enough that I can keep track of everyone and trust them to not need moderation 2) I wouldn't be doing much moderation on incoming stuff from remote instances (aside from defederating the worst of the worst) and 3) if it has technical issues, it won't get the same priority as our regular instances.

So, with all of that being said, if you're still interested, you're welcome to apply

in reply to Ada

Ta Ada. Oh wotta bummer, you've confirmed lots that i've already discovered myself from several European F instances over recent years 😭

It's also a real dog to run when it gets a bigger user base


It was this [seen only as a mere user, not knowing what was happening behind the curtain] that drove me insane, & ultimately caused me to abandon several of those "bigger" European ones. The latency just became too much to endure [eg, timelines sometimes hours behind (but commonly tens of minutes), new posts i'd try to send would often take 1' - 5' to actually send (not always, but too often to bear), manually reloading the timeline often (but not always) took some minutes to complete]. Even my one surviving instance, better than most of its forebears, still suffers bouts of this which makes me wanna tear hair.

Additionally, i began to suspect a possibility of fundamentally flawed database structure or processing, as one instance actually catastrophically destroyed itself & its owner opted to just abandon it, two others suffered multiple bouts of unreliability that took them offline for days at a time, & even my current surviving one suffered some calamity a few months ago & could not be repaired, though the owner was able to restore a backup from a few days before.

all of that being said, if you're still interested, you're welcome to apply


I sincerely appreciate the offer, but it seems not worthwhile now. My primary interest in sounding you out on this was that til now i'd not found any Oz / NZ instances that were Open, & that i felt i could trust. All those i had/have, were northern hemi as mentioned. One of my interests in trying an Oz one was to see if an expected latency reduction / performance increase might actually ensue... or not.

Ta & best wishes with it.