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afaik not really, only cell phone companies can apply to join the rcs federation and all of them just outsourced it to google and apple so it under control of just 2 companies.

so no, rcs is not an open standard.

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Not on FDroid. Not open source

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Friendica

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But what can replace Facebook that doesn't look like it was made in 1996?

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But it is open source. And there's a fork of Signal available on F-Droid called Molly.

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PixelFed adopted the very annoying features of Instagram that require photos, but no one cares and they just post photos of text, and with the federation of other platforms like Mastodon, that’s just going to happen. It also lacks the ability to follow hashtags, so it’s actually worse than IG in some ways.

The purpose of Pixelfed is photo-sharing. When I'm using Pixelfed I don't want to see everything, I just want photos. It is insanely rare for people on Pixelfed to post images of text. In fact, the global feed is mostly useless on Pixelfed because you're inundated with Mastodon users "quoting" by posting images of text. But they just announced that they're soon including a setting to allow text posts, allowing the Pixelfed app to be used as a Mastodon client.

You can follow hash tags on Pixelfed.

I don't see why everything has to be everything. Mastodon is for micro-blogging. If you're posting 20,000 word essays, you're not really micro-blogging. These all seem like reasonable choices for their intended purposes, not like mistakes at all. It might just be a mistake for you to choose those when what you want is Friendica.

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There's hundreds of other contributers, but he started them all and did the bulk of the work. The plan is to have more regular developers if they get enough donations.

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I'm all for fediverse.

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Ah ok that makes sense. In my head this guy was maintaining four codebases which did seem impossible

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It is insanely rare for people on Pixelfed to post images of text.

Which is meaningless because:

PF is federated
Not yet

the global feed is mostly useless on Pixelfed because you're inundated with Mastodon users "quoting" by posting images of text

My point, precisely. There is no Pixelfed-only feed.

I don't see why everything has to be everything

Because there's no value in limiting what the users can do on it. Because it's very easy to bypass, but in a very shitty way, which people are already doing all the time.

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Yes, there needs to be a Pixelfed-global feed. It was planned at one point. Right now, the Pixelfed servers are islands separated by an ocean of Mastodon posts. It's a problem.

Because there’s no value in limiting what the users can do on it. Because it’s very easy to bypass, but in a very shitty way, which people are already doing all the time.

I already told you the value. When I'm on Pixelfed, I only want to see photos. If it was like you're proposing, I'd stop using it and encourage someone to make the thing that currently exists. If I'm on loops, I don't want a bunch of long- or short-form text. At all. Including other things is removing value.

You should use Friendica! It's exactly what you want. We can all have what we want.

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They said matrix, not element.

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Bluesky can fuck right off.

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Wonderful. You can just make a different frontend for any of these platforms.

Thats the beauty of open source. The protocol is open, the backend is open, the frontend is open.

Example: you go and find 10 friends and decide you want this to happen. Everyone takes 100 coins (whatever your currency is) and you post on the fedi for a dev that can make you a frontend similar to facebook for 1000 bucks initially. While developing, you see if more people want to use it and maybe get more cash so your app looks better in the end.

Done. You made your own. The end.

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This happend to me on other clients too

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It is not open source. That's why its not allowed on fdroid. It has parts that are open source, like most apps. But the app itself is closed source and a risk

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I donated with open collective before and it was a pretty smooth experience

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You should use Friendica!

I might think about if I could actually see absolutely anything without creating an account.

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PixelFed
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Five.