Been looking around this place properly today. And it’s honestly looking pretty good right now with some nice theming options too. And considering that I’ve also been giving Bluesky a go, it’s pretty cool that you can even link that account.

Just one though. Unless I’m dumb and I’m missing something, browsing groups doesn’t seem that great at all. Like, unless you know specifically what you want to search for, it looks like your only option is to scroll through posts from groups until you find something that interests or is relevant to you.

I noticed that there’s a directory for users, why not one for groups? Is something like this in the pipeline? I appreciate that a platform like this is a lot more feature heavy and complicated than something like Bluesky or even Lemmy. So I’m not making demands or anything. Just an idea that I think would make it Friendica an even more complete replacement for Facebook.

Personally what I’m looking for out of this is a space where I can crap out my own thoughts and post my stolen memes and shit on my own profile, plus have the community discussion too. On that note, it would also be nice if you could load Lemmy communities in the Friendica interface and ‘Follow’ them in the same manner.

And just for my questions. First, when it comes to your handle or url, what characters exactly are allowed? Because I tried a dash and a dot in my handle and it wouldn’t accept it. Are you really just limited to letters and numbers?

Second question. About the language settings. Is it recommended to also have ‘Undefined’ selected there, in the same way as here? And why do I still see non English posts regardless? (on that note, a translation feature would be nice too)

Edit: Ok as far as languages go, I just found the language filter addon. Somehow missed it on my first round of going through the settings. Will be interesting to see how this works.

  • Zero22xxOPEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Yeah, I thought I would try the biggest or most obvious server first. Not really a big deal yet though, I’m still just checking the place out. And IMO it’s not really in a state where you can start recommending people to switch over from Facebook yet. It needs something better for groups or pages. And the photo uploading and album management is pretty archaic and bare bones still. So I’m just keeping an eye on it for now until certain things look more attractive for non tech enthusiast users.

    Not shitting on it though. It’s a complicated type of platform to put together and it’s clearly still WiP. But not ready for mass adoption yet. Especially if new users are going to be trying it only for their posts to go nowhere after a week.

      • Zero22xxOPEnglish
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        7 days ago

        Just fyi, you accidentally included that last bracket in the url, so it doesn’t load properly at first. Haven’t checked out misskey yet (I think I’ve seen it mentioned but barely) but it definitely looks interesting and worth a closer look.

        As for groups, there’s just no way of properly browsing them. It seems like your only option is to scroll through a chronological feed of random posts by groups until something catches your eye. Or to know the name of what you’re looking for so that you can specifically search it. But there’s no obvious list of groups to browse through.