Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network

kennywinker

I’m interested in self-hosting a small social network for my family and close friends. Something to get us off facebook/instagram. If anybody is more familiar with the options, is this what you’d recommend?

interglossa

I tried it sometime ago. I liked the interface but haven't found much of a community around it. It is very unfortunate that diaspora did not thrive earlier.

swed420

Anybody have familiarity with Friendica to know how it stacks against the common pitfalls listed here? https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/ Seems like it maybe suffers from the "fiefdom" / portability issue that other platforms struggle with, but I haven't looked closely.

AnonyMD

I tried to host this a few years ago, but it fell through because there wasn't enough documentation. I wonder if the documentation is more comprehensive now?

virgil_disgr4ce

This is one of the least convincing homepages I've ever seen. It doesn't help that there are no x margins at the largest media query. In fact nothing about this page encourages me to spend more than one second looking at it.

mxuribe

Wow, this is a blast from the past! I haven't touched nor done anything on Friendica since like 2014/2015! (Yes, this is one of the grand daddy of the original fediverse social platforms before the name "fediverse" was even a thing...like Gnu Social and status.net old!) Good on them that they're still going strong!

ulrischa

Finally one project with php and mysql that I can throw on a cheap shared hosting. No docker of node_modules fuckup

HelloUsername

Previous discussion in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16763779

wizardforhire

“Military grade encryption”…??? What does this even mean? I’ve scoured the website, their wiki, their faq, the past hn convo… too no avail! A substitution cypher was considered “military grade” for millennia

IFC_LLC

Sadly, but the whole buzz about social networks is built around the community. And any of federated networks require some technical knowledge that is over the head in 99% of regular users. I wish this could be a bit more user-friendly, like p2p networking that does not require any user configuration, just install a client and it will p2p automatically.

kkfx

I've tested WriteFreely, Mastodon, Nostr, ... but all lack the basic to succeed IMVHO: - being a single, simple application, without much deps, maybe go-get-able, pip-able, cargo build-able etc, WF actually is one of them - offer a platform, meaning a blog, comments per posts, distributed identity, optional chat We have many different projects who do so, but not a single integrated one. Nostr is good for the infra, have a sufficiently complete relay (Haven) and a future one a bit more complete (MOAR), but lack a built-in client and a decent chat support (0xchat is nice, and very hard to deploy in a sovereign manner). WF is nice but limited as a blog and have no comments Matrix is nice for chatting, with a very complex audio/video support, with very little documentation, I manage to get it running, with LiveKit as well, but it's a pain. XMPP is even worse because it lack a complete client for all platforms and it's very touchy on DNS setup. The defunct ZeroNet was very nice to host personal websites without a domain name and also behind NAT, but offer nothing ready made to use with it. ... Long story short we have the wrong tech stack underneath. We need to rediscover the old Xerox model of the OS as single integrated app, where anything can be combined at the user will, with ease. Emacs/LispM do better pushing anything in the config instead of relaying on a live image. But that's what we need. We have one mind, we need to combine out digital companion.