Have you ever tried Flohmarkt? Flohmarkt is a decentralized app for buying, selling, and bartering in the Fediverse that allows you to post items for sale or to give away. Because it's federated, users of other platforms (e.g., Mastodon) can interact, view listings, and contact sellers directly via private messages.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/08/flohmarkt-federated-market/

Raccoon is not updated since a while and I have errors when I add an account to it!

The 1.0 release of Raccoon for Friendica for Android was released last week.

Unfortunately, this isn't the case: we tend to think these spam attempts are intended for stupid or naive people. However, someone who's just discovered the fediverse and has begun to learn all the strange things that still amaze me (even though I've been here for years) might not be surprised by such an oddity. Finally, just as someone recovering from chemotherapy can risk their life with a simple flu, even an intelligent and well-prepared person can experience moments of emotional fragility or fatigue that lower their defenses. These messages are much more dangerous than they seem!

What a misleading headline

Why ever misleading? I have verified that a WordPress blog can post to a Lemmy community just like any user would. What would be misleading?

Yes, but I can't "find" Threads content from Lemmy.world

I'll also try to mention admins @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] and @[email protected]

😈

Don't underestimate the danger behind these messages: I'll reply to you with the same message I wrote here.

I understand your choices well. We have made an internal evaluation on the opportunity to federate Threads with our instances: with the mastodon poliversity.it instance we decided to silence Threads; with the Friendica poliverso.org instance we used the newly introduced functionality to obfuscate all the personal data of our users towards Threads; with the Lemmy feddit.it instance, however, we decided to leave the federation to try to allow Italian Threads users (feddit.it is an Italian-speaking instance) to use activitypub groups and discover the "free Fediverse"

A blog requires a platform designed for blogging. Staying within the realm of federated software, the three natural alternatives are:

1. WordPress, which, thanks to the plugin that makes it compatible with Activitypub, has achieved a level of perfect integration with the Fediverse.
2. Ghost, which, federated a few months ago, is not only a blogging platform but is also specifically designed for creating mailing lists based on the Substack model.
3. Writefreely, which, despite being natively federated, is extremely focused on distraction-free writing and therefore has some seriously limiting features.

Friendica

As for Friendica, I'm a huge fan of that software and manage the second-most active instance in the entire Fediverse. I can assure you that I know it well and appreciate all its most important features. But don't be fooled by the fact that some call it macro-blogging software. In fact, if you visit a Friendica account's profile, it's not possible to filter the Timeline of their posts from the Timeline of the posts they've reshared. So, you could virtually create a page like this:

https://poliverso.org/profile/saio

But you could only do that if you don't share too much other content, otherwise the result would be like this:

https://poliverso.org/profile/notizie

which would be much more confusing 😅

However, Friendica is a very powerful software that allows you to republish your blog feed, as well as automatically reshare your federated blogs. Here I've listed some very interesting Friendica features for blogging:

https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-1366-ebfd-2002-91a370393480

So, to recap, if you want to use Friendica to create your blog, you can: you can create a new account. Remember to define it as a "page account," if possible, but also remember that when you reshare content you like, it will appear on your profile page. However, if you don't need the full suite of tools that characterize a social media platform, you're better off using WordPress.

Sharkey

We're talking about software with a very nice interface, but it's still a social networking software. Being essentially a fork of Misskey, it also has a section for creating static pages that can be easily viewed from outside the Fediverse, but these pages can't be federated with Activitypub 😭. Ultimately, it seems even less suitable for creating a blog. If you absolutely must use a Fediverse social media platform, then you'd be better off going with Friendica!

Hubzilla

PS: There's also a software called Hubzilla, which is compatible with Activitypub, although it has developed its own communication protocol. I'm only mentioning it because it's a feature-rich and well-designed product, but its interface is quite complex and unfriendly, so although I've chosen to mention it, I can't recommend it as an alternative.

It is a framework, but also a software already working and usable to create a social and some document sharing modules. And in the future it should also have something more like Kanban boards or a sort of marketplace

Had a look, seems like facebook–ish UI but 10 years ago. Correct?

No, that's not correct at all! 🤦🤦🤦

Friendica is the most beautiful and powerful social media software in the Fediverse: it can make you write long, formatted posts with in-line images, with title or without title, it can publish scheduled posts, it can make you follow websites with RSS feeds , Diaspora and GNU Social profiles, it has a connector for Bluesky and TumbIr, it can manage circles like Google+, it can manage public ActivityPub groups (basically like Lemmy communities) but also private ones, it manages activitypub events like those of Mobilizon and Gancio.

The development is continuous and always cutting edge and the developers are pretty smart!

Unfortunately it has two problems that compromise its success:

• the lack of an iOS app
• a painful web 1.1 interface reminiscent of the original Facebook, but unfortunately the development staff no longer has any professional graphics. In reality it would be enough to adapt the soapbox interface (not everyone knows that it is possible to manage a friendica account through the soapbox interface!), but this is a bit of a sore point...

If you want to undertake the development of new Fediverse software, I recommend you take a look at Friendica and, if possible, also Misskey, Bonfire and Kbin; however in the Fediverse it is also important to try to reinvent the wheel, because the diversity of ideas is the true richness of the Fediverse

In reality, any user can force federation by simply searching for the handle of a user or content of the fedeverse from the search box of their instance. This method always works unless the instance has been previously defederated.

The problem is that from feddit.it I can't "find" the contents of Threads (and not even from lemmy.world), even when they are those of the ten Instagram executives visible from mastodon.social and from any other instance that has not defederated Threads

I don't think Piefed supports microblogging

The gup.pe groups are not Mastodon groups, but Activitypub groups that the immer.space project has created according to the standards To allow Mastodon users to easily create groups to use, which can be done by Friendica users and those of all link aggregator or forumverse platforms (from Lotide to NodeBB). Lemmy also supports them, although he does so in an unsatisfactory way.

the fact that it is in the roadmap is important, but it means that it is not there. Moreover, although piefed is a well-optimized platform, bringing the following of users will certainly entail a burden for the servers that host it And we will have to understand how much it is worth: one of the nice things about reddit like software is that you cannot follow other users 🤣

now I understand. the translation of the italian expression "su Lemmy" was translated as "about Lemmy" and not "on Lemmy"

OH YEAH!!!

PS: From what I see here, the wordpress abstract becomes both the title and the text of the Lemmy post, while the text of the wordpress post is not published.

I totally understand the lack of faith

I hope it's clear that this is a "methodological distrust", but I'm rooting for you!

I believe in the mantra that “if someone else is doing something that you think you can do better, you should do it”.

Right!

Not sure what you mean with “damage” here

I'm referring to this: https://github.com/lemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5300

The reason why Mastodon doesn't show the text of Lemmy's initial posts is that they don't want to properly manage the Activitypub message flow. Do they do it out of inexperience? Out of laziness? Or do they do it to penalize Lemmy who (two years ago) was the only software capable of challenging for supremacy in the Fediverse? Friendica's "Posts with Title" (so-called "Pages") had the same problem: Friendica developers found an interesting way to solve the problem, namely adding an option to publish the post as a "Page" (Mastodon reads it as a title with a link to the original post) or as a "Note" (Mastodon reads it all). But this is a solution that violates the Activitypub standard and in fact Lemmy developers refused to do it because they are very proud (remember when I told you that software developers in the Fediverse are often in a bad mood? 😜).

but my plan is to support all kinds of ActivityPub content

it's a complicated goal, but not impossible

I find bonfire especially confusing. I can’t seem to grok what it is - is it a server, or a framework for a server, or an app?

I agree: I've often told their developers that they have a serious communication problem! What I don't like about Bonfire, however, is that it has so far seriously underestimated the importance of Activitypub groups.

I’m not sure what “Masters of the Fediverse” refers to

Gargron, Dansup, Evan Prodromou and longtime Friendica developers Hubzilla and Lemmy :-)

I appreciate your concern, but I am a professional software engineer

Great!

Rest assured, I have worked on very large projects professionally and built plenty of things in side projects

Even more… great! A Fediverse project really needs a team. One-man-show projects are too risky and emotionally draining

I particularly enjoy Rust (...) I am super confused about what Bonfire even is. All these reasons and other reasons are why I wanted to do my own project.

From what you say, it seems like you've really nailed the current Fediverse landscape

But rest assured that I am very familiar and comfortable with APIs

Yes, that puts my mind at ease!

I care about documentation

This makes me even more reassured! 🙂

If you have any concrete feedback on the UI and/or UX of Lemmy, Mastodon, Friendica or other apps...

Can I ask you to create a Lemmy community or a Friendica group? It would be nice to discuss in one place

Aside from the fact that it's not true: politicians as such should not be put in a position to deanonymize anything, except through the intervention of the judiciary. Furthermore, this is not the case either: Andrea Stoppa is Elon Musk's Italian lobbyist and has already distinguished himself a couple of times for having threatened Italian politics if it does not enter into agreements with Starlink

Stroppa claims that he can read direct messages as a shareholder. If this is true, it is not only true for Italy but for the entire world

Of course, yes. Friendica Groups are special accounts (just like Lemmy communities, which are also activitypub groups) and, like all Friendica accounts, they can also be managed in a delegated manner by another profile of the same instance.

Friendica groups are very powerful tools, but always remember that Friendica Groups have a social interface that is less intuitive than that of Lemmy communities, which instead have the simplicity of forums