Will Threads last? I don’t know. It is an app stuffed with verified users I’ve never heard of who have 7 million YouTube subscribers. They all do Epic Pranks and they spread Positive Vibes and they Don’t Talk Politics Here.

As no one can delete their Threads accounts without deleting their Instagram accounts, I’m sure it will last. Users will likely get bored and leave, but Zuck will likely show the advertisers „hey, there are millions of users already here and no one is leaving. Here’s how many you can reach!”.

Kind of how @mastodonusercount displays accounts over on Mastodon, but you don’t know how active are them or if they are still using the said accounts.

@gunnervi maybe being something like Goodreads but for movies, I think

@gredo

@notacat There are a couple of apps listed on their website, and there’s also Relatica, created by one of the devs. This looks like the most modern Friendica dedicated client at the moment, although in beta. It is also cross-platform, or that’s what the dev wants. But from what I understand, you can use Mastodon client apps as well (haven’t tried tho).

@gredo I didn’t, yet, haha. I’m still on Facebook, yet once they move to other platforms to chat on there, I will pull the plug.

I had one friend that got to Mastodon, then got bored by it, then there was another one that tried the very server I am on, currently. She didn’t seem to stick either.

I try to keep the number of accounts on social networks low tho. I started to be more active on chat apps with friends and the like. Over here I am mostly posting news, pictures and commenting stuff around 😁

Edit: I’m still figuring out how to use this whole thing (the account) tbh. But I enjoy the features of it and try to maximize them to their full potential. For example there’s no way you can add a title to your post on Facebook, format your text using BBCodes for instance (whether in posts, comments or on the profile), add inline images and other media (inside the text, like, you write something, add an image, then continue writing below it), follow RSS feeds directly etc.

@gredo I think I am into a year almost, lol. I was looking for a Facebook alternative so there I am, on Friendica 😁

@gredo There is a clone of #Facebook (actually 2 or 3: #Friendica, which uses AP, #Diaspora, using it’s own protocol and #Hubzilla, using both AP and it’s own, #Zot protocol).

Then there’s #Pixelfed, which is an alternative to #Instagram

Edit: what I really find missing is an alternative to #IMDb

@Mango7874 Try fediverse.observer/

@realcaseyrollins you have to append the /make tag afterward, so it will work. Usually works this way.

@SunshineCat @makeitquote /make

@Bicyclejohn on Android? I tried it for a while, so it is safe. You can always scan it if you have some doubts (virustotal scans apk files as well iirc).

What I do not like about the app is that the dev seems to kinda hide some Friendica features for the sake of user-friendliness. For example, I couldn’t figure out how to add titles to posts, nor did I see how to dislike a post. And you kinda have to keep in mind the BBCode formatting as there are no suggestions, like on the web for example:

[![Here’s what you get when you type “[” in the web UI](https://i.imgur.com/bMTHskx.png "Here’s what you get when you type "" in the web UI")

I’d try it once again tho to see how things evolved.

@Bicyclejohn Nothing official, but there are certain 3rd party apps listed on the website, or you can use Relatica. The webapp also seems to work well with the default themes.

@Bicyclejohn It depends. If you want to try out new stuff, then yes. Or if you want a network with the feature setthat it has, and which can communicate with pretty much all other networks on the Fediverse. Also, one of the Features of Friendica is that you can have your account automatically reshare everything you post from other accounts. So if you want to have your one-stop-shop for everything Fedi, do try it out 😁

Edit: thought I was in a different thread lol

@Bicyclejohn I think it was when I first heard about Diaspora*. But back then I just didn’t try it. Just heard about it and I thought that I’d get there at some point. Then I heard about Mastodon way back a few years ago, but I didn’t join because I didn’t (and still don’t) like Twitter. Then I decided to test a Facebook alternative (I was for a long time decided to move away from Zuck’s garden and kept adding personal life milestones for this), and here I am, on Friendica 😁

@uthredii This hits personally

@poVoq That’s not to be excluded now that I think of it. In the latest post Eugen said that they blocked some email domains used for this attack.

@anji well, they did have a new onboarding experience at least, lol

@_ed @Berserkware They could have chosen a different wording though: instead of choose your own server they should have better said choose a different server and add a small ℹ️ button with a small pop-up explaining the fact that Mastodon works differently than other social media networks and in what way (briefly). By saying your own it implies that the user should already own a server (hence your own) instead of letting them know that they have a choice.

@KelsonV I see. So this might actually be a good thing, as they are publicly allowing anyone to use such a server to their own benefit, haha 😁
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@KelsonV That makes sense

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@KelsonV So you’re saying that anything you post can be visible for any AP server, basically?
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