Short video that show what Friendica can do

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If you want to share something with someone, share it with them. Tagging them instead of sharing the content in a normal way spams the whole Lemmy discussion with irrelevant comments.

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Here's my problem with a facebook replacement.

I don't like facebook. Now lets take away all the spying, and data collecting. Lets take away all the corruption. Lets take away the politics. Lets take away the ads. Lets take away everything that most people assosiate with facebook being evil. Lets look at facebook as purely what it claims to try to be. A socizl media gathering place to post pictures of your life. Connect with friends. Post stories. Read others posts. All that.

Lets take facebook at that face value, and only that. Ok? Everybody on the same page? Cool.

I still don't like facebook. Even without the other stuff, I'm just not the type to document and share my life.

So I start to think about that stuff we excluded earlier. All the evil bullshit. And I realize that my mom and sisters all use facebook. So logically it would make sense to introduce them to frendica, right?

Here's the issue. I look at what my mom would use facebook/frendica for. She uses it to stay in touch with her sewing friends/groups. People she's spent 40 years sewing various quilts and projects with. It's like a book club, but instead of reading and discussing books, they all sew things and share their teqniques.

So I'd have to convince not only my mom to switch, but also all 40+ of her sewing group crew. Then I'd also have to convince the 200 or so OTHER people she's connected with because "oh, I used to know you in the 1960s when I lived in another state, but now I can reconnect with you and share stuff because the internet and facebook exists!"

THEN I'd need to convince her that facebook is bad. Because without a problem, even if I did manage to get all 250ish people to use friendica, why would they make the switch if they're already on facebook?

YOU see the problem, and I see the problem.....but they won't. Facebook as it is, from their eyes, is working just fine.

And thats my issue with friendica. It's there to solve a very real problem, that nobody is asking to fix.

Ulrich

Maybe consider getting a phone that doesn't require a paid developer account for the privilege of distributing software.

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This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for sharing. I don't understand why someone on a social media website would question you for sharing content with another user on a social media website. Again, thank you. This is what I needed.

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I'm appreciative of him tagging me. If you don't like it, downvote and move on. You aren't contributing to anything, you are just being controlling and negative.

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Happy to help!

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We phone shaming now? Maybe consider not being an absolute cunt

Ulrich

I shame those whose decisions make things worse for everyone else.

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Says the hypocrite using Google. ‘But it’s embedded in my every day’.

Ulrich

That's literally not my choice, as I said in the comment you dug up in my history.

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I still don’t like facebook. Even without the other stuff, I’m just not the type to document and share my life.

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It’s there to solve a very real problem, that nobody is asking to fix.

"I'm not the type to comment and review books, and the people I do know who do that are old, so BookWyrm is solving a problem nobody asked to fix."

Maybe there are people, younger and more ideologically devoted to non-corporate services than your mom, who do like to share their lives with a limited set of friends and would like a service without all the evil stuff.