Or sold their souls for the tiniest splash of convenience.

We don’t know if this was merely an accident.

I went: oh a UK instance, that’ll do. And now I help run the place.

It doesn’t ask where you are, just the language. As it’s for Lemmy only, it obviously doesn’t ask what service you are looking for too.

Join the Fediverse needs something much more like that but with the extra options. As it stands you have to do way too much scrolling, reading and clicking.

I see dead people.

Yes, Friendica should work with pretty much everything on the Fediverse and beyond (Bluesky, Diaspora, Tumblr and anything that spits out an RSS feed). It handles communities a lot better than micro-blogging services.

IMO sites like https://pixelfed.org/how-to-join and https://join-lemmy.org/ should just have a normal sign up flow, and load balance between all servers that opt in.

I think the Join Fediverse site should ask a few questions (what service do you want? Where are you? What are your interests?) and spit out a small handful of suggestions. Shouldn’t be too difficult to program.

It’s compatible with the Mastodon API, so you can use those apps.

I joined Diaspora back when Google+ went tits up. Is Anything actually happening over there?

Yes, it’s an odd one. I was listening to all the breathless coverage and thinking “they must just not like us.” It’s like school all over again!

That said, I wonder how much of it is because it makes good copy. After all, Pixelfed’s usage has taken off like a rocket and it’s app was doing better than quite a few of the larger social media platforms:

https://feddit.uk/post/22742725

Odour colon

That an elephant’s leg. Unless you are saying one of them is made from a number or human legs…

That’s what I was thinking. I know one I complaint about Friendica is the interface is a bit clunky, so that might help address the issue.

The women in Middlesbrough have been bred for centuries to fit into a shoe box.

Classic Smoggie behaviour!

Thanks for that. As a front end I’m not sure it meets my criteria but it is interesting. The look wasn’t necessarily a big deal but I wonder if you could bolt that onto Friendica…

Is it? I know it’s been moved to Wordpress, but I haven’t heard about this.

Good point. Last updates were they were still working on it in December 2023 but the move to WP seems to have either derailed the efforts or forced it to switch tracks.

Ghost can apparently be used to manage multiple blogs under different subdomains. Might be worth looking into when their ActivityPub supports goes out of early access.

I’m seeing Ghost as a Substack killer, as that is a toxic swamp we need sensible folk off. Nearly everyone who had a newsletter migrated there. Only one listened to their fans and backed straight out again.

That film must be extra confusing to Americans.

Facebum

Well done!