There are many #Friendica fans, and for good reason. Once you get past the learning curve from the difficult UI, you get to appreciate the extra benefits of built-in #Bluesky, #Lemmy/#Piefed/#MBIN, #Tumblr, and #RSS feed integration. It also has #Diasporia integration and some other protocol integrations. Of course, it’s also a #Mastodon alternative.

Nobody ever mentions Friendica as being a #Threadiverse app, but it has Groups, which is built-in Threadiverse capability. If you follow a Community on Lemmy/Piefed/MBIN, for example, it gets categorized as a group and is placed into a separate section for the groups you are part of. Then you can read and post in the Group (Community/Magazine) just like you would on a Threadiverse application. You can also create public and private groups.

And there is no need to use a Bluesky bridge if the Friendica instance you are on has the integration turned on.

Here’s an excellent 5-minute video showing Friendica created by @earthman@my-place.social for those interested in seeing how it works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFGLRgnaeLc

  • jakob@soc.schuerz.at
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    3 days ago

    @Jerry

    I use #friendica only with the webapp and since a few days with the custom-theme #bookface which looks really modern and has a very good interface also for smartphone-size.

    I use it for interacting with people. Mostly on fediverse.
    And i’ve subscribed some rss-feeds. Which works quite good.

    Since a few days peertube-videos also work very good on friendica (on rc-branch, for devs).

    What i like on friendica is the possibility to join a user or on peertube also a channel and set “share native”. So my account shares every posting from the other account when it arrives on my server.
    I use this for some of my peertube-channels and my pixelfed-account.
    So i post a video or images there, and my friendica-followers (which is my main interacting service in fediverse) get my videos and images from the other accounts instantly, when i pist them there.

    This workflow i also use to bring some rss-feeds into fediverse.
    Therefore i created another “identity” in friendica. For example @sternengeschichten and configured it as newspage.
    Then i joined with this identity the rss-feed and configured it as “share native”.

    Now every fediverse-user can join my friendica-account @sternengeschichten and receives each new posting on this rss-feed as native fediverse-posting.

    I love those great workfliws, friendica delivers.