cross-posted from: https://opensocial.at/objects/59c238fc-9164-a5d4-d43d-bec086856034
#friendica is one of the longest lasting #Fedi platforms, around longer than Mastodon for instance, some people say it’s the Facebook of the 'verse, but I’m not sure if that’s accurate. When I first joined the 'verse I still spent a lot of time of time on Facebook because of how little content I saw on GNU Social.
One of the folks I followed from their recommended I really try out Friendica as it supported significantly more protocols than GS did. I gave it a shot. While in 2023 most everyone, including GS, supports activityPub, so there’s a lot more content in general, Friendica still supports more than anyone else, including Diaspora* and Pump.io, and supporting RSS Feeds was what got me hooked. I never actually had used RSS regularly when it was more popular in the 00s-10s, I never really “got” it, and found it easier to just go to the websites than follow a feed. But having RSS in my social media feed, just like any other friend’s post, that was something completely different. It allowed me to get high quality content to read regularly, comment on, share with my friends etc., even though the content creators themselves hadn’t yet joined the 'verse. Plus their “add friend” feature is like magic, allowing me to just enter a www address and it would find a feed for it, even those that don’t seem to advertise anywhere on the site that they have RSS feed, or in some cases I suspect its baked into their base (Wordpress?), don’t even realize they have an RSS Feed.
I’m posting to this Lemmy group from Friendica right now, (where it shows as a “Friendica Forum” which is pretty much the same thing only missing the the ability to sort by hot/new/etc. But then again, the sort options it does use, might be the same.
Social Media isn’t collapsing, it’s getting better.
If you want to try it out clearly I like opensocial.at, but you can see if there’s a better one for you dir.friendica.social/servers or friendica.fediverse.observer/
#SorryNotSorry for being an evangelist here. I’ll post the feeds I follow in a bit.
You never know. 20 years ago I didn’t think my mom would ever figure out how to use email, let alone spend free time on an online social media platform. Nothing is forever.
I had heard of someone setting up their Friendica Forum with SMS and email add-ons (maybe they used IFTT? I’m not sure) so that their family members could participate in the “group chat” in the preferred way of each individual. They had indicated that eventually most of them switched to Friendica so that they could get the full experience. I’ve never done it though.