New on #TheFutureIsFederated

Elena Rossini ⁂

@nrdufour thank you Nicolas. As much as I love Friendica, I find its UX/UI really outdated and the server response slow. I may try self-host my own instance to see if anything improves... but now I'm curious about Hubzilla (its successor)

Michael Foster

@_elena An inspirational year, thank you! And some films/videos sound amazing!

Stefan Bohacek

@_elena Very cool, you had a busy year!

Elena Rossini ⁂

@stefan thank you Stefan! Looking back, it's pretty incredible what I managed to try out this summer (also considering my little one was out of school for 2 months).

I look forward to more Fediverse experimentations this year... including making a bot with your guidance!

Nicolas Dufour

@_elena Ah good to know! I'll give a try to hubzilla. Seems an exciting project.

Matthias Pfefferle

@_elena tu sei il cronista del fediverso 🫶

thank you so much for all your work!!!

Elena Rossini ⁂

@pfefferle awww grazie Matthias! ️

I haven't done anything of note, but I am incredibly grateful for your ActivityPub x Wordpress plugin, it's been a total game changer

Stefan Bohacek

@_elena Looking forward to that as well!

Mike Macgirvin 🖥️

Use the right tool for the job.

Hubzilla is a great decentralised content management system and website creation engine, if that's what you're after. For basic social networking, it might be a bit much for some people. It's not a social networking app your mother would use - unless you actually use the built-in CMS tools to create a social networking website that your mother would use. Building socially-connected small business and community/shopping sites is its essential purpose.

If however - you're looking for a fair simple Facebook-like replacement in the fediverse in 2025 that is years ahead of Mastodon in terms of online safety and being family friendly, have a look here:

https://codeberg.org/streams/streams#readme

Disclaimer: I created Friendica. And Hubzilla.

Carlos Solís

That reminds me - any plans to backport the support for RSS feeds into one of your current projects? For some reason, not even #Hubzilla seems to have kept that code...

Mike Macgirvin 🖥️

As far as I know Hubzilla still provides feeds-as-contacts. The library we originally used (simplepie) has been in maintenance mode for nearly 20 years. I think the Friendica folks tossed it completely and wrote their own feed parser to replace it, but that isn't license compatible with my later projects.