@jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu wrote:
I guess not few of those who try their luck quickly discover that Friendica is, in fact, not a pure group/forum platform, not "Guppe, but it's moderated", and too confusing and difficult to wrap their minds around. The step from Mastodon to Friendica is much bigger than the step from Twitter to Mastodon.
That is correct, many people are just unaware of our platforms, and everytime there is someone on r/Mastodon saying that they would like a Mastodon instance with longer character limit or a Mastodon instance with forums/groups thingie or that they want to move to Mastodon from Facebook and are looking for advice. However, there are still some interesting Friendica groups out there, albeit less active. I even created one for !postrock. I was wondering if there are some interesting communities in Hubzilla as well, despite the small user base.
c) ActivityPub is off by default, not to mention d) how to turn it on which is anything but straight-forward.
Holly cow. I guess I'll stay on Friendica for the foreseeable future 😁
jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu 2 months ago
To be fair, ActivityPub is off by default because it makes nomadic identity more difficult on the level that Zot6 offers. And it's off by default at channel level only whereas it's on by default at hub level.
With "anything but straight-foward", I mean it isn't like on (streams) where you have an ActivityPub on/off switch in the settings which is usually even on when you first discover it.
Instead, ActivityPub is an add-on, an "app" that has to be "installed". But newbies don't expect Hubzilla to have add-ons at all because Twitter has none, and Mastodon has none. And they certainly wouldn't expect ActivityPub, of all things, to be an add-on and off by default. In fact, most probably join Hubzilla in the belief that it is based on ActivityPub like "everything else" in the Fediverse.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #ActivityPub #NomadicIdentity
petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 months ago
jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu 2 months ago
As the user, you have it under "Available apps", but you have to activate (= "install") it.
#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #ActivityPub #PubCrawl #Hubzilla
petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 months ago
Regez@troet.cafe 2 months ago
@jupiter_rowland
I listen to your conversation with interest because I have very little technical background...
Are the add-ons more complicated to "install" than in Firefox? And what about Hubzilla's translation functions or German-language communities?
@petrescatraian