Let’s hope that there are also a few organisations that run Friendica instances so that the offer becomes a bit bigger. In the last two years, everyone has been totally fixated on Mastodon and many have opened a Mastodon server without realising that there were other options.

The Channels in Friendica are similar to the “antennas” / “newspickers” in Misskey / Sharkey. Both are very good ways to receive content sorted by self-defined topics.

If you are looking for a way to *send *to different topics, Friendica’s (connected) “accounts” would be suitable for this, But Hubzilla offers more options for this

“Friendica - the BlueSky integration…”

Friendica offers a connector for Tumblr as well as for Bluesky. Ad hoc I can only find a German-language manual for it: https://friendica-hilfe.gitbook.io/friendica-hilfe/basics/bluesky-tumblr-und-weitere-social-media-dienste

Hubzilla certainly has the most options for privacy. But it is ‘not perfect’. More detailed here (in German):

"Full disclosure: The encryption that hubzilla uses by default is not absolutely watertight. There are known methods to circumvent it. However, this is very time-consuming and has to be done individually for each channel. And to be clear: Other services store your messages in plain text, so we see this approach as a significant improvement for your privacy. Furthermore, you are always free to use additional encryption and password protection if you wish. To explain this in more detail:

• each channel has its own key pair
• every non-public post is automatically encrypted
• optional password protection for content via crypto javascript, browser-to-browser encryption (must be enabled in settings) Full disclosure: A malicious hub administrator could inject malicious javascript code (e.g. keylogging capabilities) into the code. Encrypt our data with GPG, become a hub administrator yourself, or use other means of communication if that bothers you.

So what is the scope of security? To put it bluntly, it may be great, but it’s not perfect."

With Friendica you have a picture gallery and can set for each picture whether it should be public or private; same with calendars. However, I can’t say how private it will be from a technical point. You can also define contact circles.

Here on the Features list it says “Privacy with military encryption” but I don’t know what that refers to exactly.

The direct messages are definitely more private than with Mastodon (they don’t work with Mastodon). Sharkey / Misskey also have some.

Here is a good video introduction to Friendica : https://peertube.stream/w/p/1e4ebc30-d582-4067-97d8-3de59bdaf330?playlistPosition=1

“Are there English miskey instances? I know it’s primarily big in japan”

I have no experience with Misskey itself. You can filter by language on the project page: https://misskey-hub.net/en/servers/

For Sharkey et al. there is a list of instances where registration is possible: https://contentnation.net/en/favstarmafia/sharkey

This overview shows which functions differ: https://pancakes.gay/misskey-comparison/

That’s true, the -keys are certainly closer to Twitter than to Lemmy / Reddit.

But even Mastodon can follow hashtags, the interesting thing about the -keys are imho the Antennas / Newspicker, with which you can set up individual timelines with your own search word combination. This makes it less user-centred and more related to topics / content. And at least you can display ‘load conversations to replies’ in the timeline (in Sharkey). This means that the post snippets are not displayed without context, as is the case with Mastodon, but a part of the thread is shown in the timeline.

As a result, threads from Lemmy are also displayed somewhat better in Sharkey than in Mastodon, where all replies arrive separately.

Misskey and its forks are a bit in between and already very different from Mastodon. And I don’t think they bear any resemblance to Twitter (which I don’t know from experience). There are 3000+ characters and the thread display is also a bit better there and not quite as jumbled as on Mastodon. In my opinion, the thread view is best in Friendica (apart from Lemmy).

If I understand correctly, all three are possible, but I don’t use it myself and only know these instructions in German. Here are the most important paragraphs (automatically) translated:

"Friendica allows you to make various settings. You therefore have the choice of whether and how you want to use the connection to Bluesky.

Even if the connection to Bluesky has been established and your contacts have been imported, this does not mean that all your Fediverse posts are automatically visible on Bluesky.

Friendica gives you the freedom to decide how deeply you want to integrate with Bluesky.

[ 1 ] ‘Publish to Bluesky by default’ - if this option is activated, every post will also be visible on Bluesky

[ 2 ] ‘Import the remote timeline’ - if this option is activated, all posts from the accounts you follow will be imported.

[ 3 ] ‘Complete the threads’ - if this option is activated, all comments on your posts and those of your contacts will be completed with additional comments.

Your connection to Bluesky is now established. Your timeline will now be filled with posts from the Fediverse and Bluesky.

You can now interact with your Bluesky contacts. For example, by entering a comment without opening the Bluesky app or browser window."

Since the text is from 2020, some information is no longer up to date: The connections to Twitter and Facebook are closed, instead there are now connectors to Tumblr and Bluesky

I’m not a big fan of Mastodon either (started with it, but now prefer Friendica and Lemmy), for me personally it’s not a good fit. But hashtags on Mastodon are at least a way to follow not just individual users but also topics (and this only works if they are hashtagged). With Friendica, Sharkey and others, you can define your own individual channels / antennas for certain topics, so hashtags and individual accounts are not so important. And for Lemmy, they’re not important at all. But as a Lemmy user, I can still put up with it when I see a hashtag (that gives others an advantage). What’s so bad about seeing it?

Every Fediverse content looks a little different, depending on which access software or app you use to view it. It seems that there are also Lemmy apps that display hashtags a little too exaggerated, while in others and in the web-gui it is ok. (in an earlier version of the guide it also said that you shouldn’t use hashtags/tags esp. in the headline because it didn’t work properly back then).

But maybe I should include a note in the instructions that hashtags should be used sparingly or placed at the end?

From here (webapp) it looks quite ok. You seem to be using an app that exaggerates hashtags a bit too much. (which app is it?)

It may be that not all instances are federating in both directions yet. You can send something from Gotosocial to one of the test communities (e.g. !test@feddit.org , but lemmy.world may also have one) if you want to test it further.

To be more precise: At the moment only in one direction (Lemmy > Friendica) all images are displayed. This is how it looks in Friendica: https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-7067-83af-dbbc-0fd212873067

You might be able to speed it up a bit by copying the link of your GoToSocial post in Lemmy into the search box.

It has successfully reached Lemmy ! 🚀

If you want to host your own instance, there are also managed hosting offers for Friendica, e.g. by Weingärtner-IT (from 4€/month) or Spacehost (20€).

To get to know Friendica, however, I would recommend simply creating an account and testing it out, first.

In my experience, I can’t see any difference in speed between different launchers. But just try it out, install a few and then delete the ones you don’t like.

The interface design is based on how iOS works, for example to move an icon on your phone long press one of the icons and wait till they all go wiggling and then drag the icon to where you want to have it.

In case you don’t like the interface, you can also simply install a different launcher and set it as the default start app. There really is a lot to choose from: https://android.izzysoft.de/applists/category/named/tools_launcher?lang=en

(part 2: 2000-2024):

• 2000 Disturbed Down with the Sickness
• 2000 Linkin Park One step closer
• 2000 Papa Roach Last Resort
• 2000 The Hives Hate to Say I Told You So
• 2001 Clawfinger Nothing going on
• 2001 James Getting Away With it (All Messed Up)
• 2001 Jimmy Eat World Bleed American
• 2001 P.O.D. Youth of the Nation
• 2001 R.E.M. Imitation of live
• 2001 Subway to Sally Veitstanz
• 2001 System of a Down Chop Suey!
• 2001 System Of A Down Toxicity
• 2002 In Flames Cloud Connected
• 2002 Manowar Warriors of the World United
• 2002 Panteón Rococó La carencia
• 2002 Queens of a Stone Age No one knows
• 2002 Red Hot Chili Peppers Can‘t stop
• 2002 The Coral Dreaming of You
• 2003 Billy Talent This is how it goes
• 2003 Crüxshadows Winter born o. Deception
• 2003 Die Ärzte unrockbar
• 2003 Gloria Estefan Wrapped
• 2003 No Doubt It‘s my life
• 2003 Placebo The bitter end
• 2003 Schiller & Heppner I feel you
• 2003 Tanzwut Erdbeerrot
• 2003 The caesars Jerk it out
• 2003 Type O Negative I don‘t wanna be me
• 2004 Beatsteaks Hand in Hand
• 2004 Green Day Holiday
• 2004 Panteón Rococó La Ciudad de la Esperanza
• 2004 Rise Against Life less frightened
• 2004 Slipknot Duality
• 2004 Sportfreunde Stiller Ich, Roque
• 2005 Depeche Mode precious
• 2005 Disturbed Stricken
• 2005 Limp Bizkit Take a Look Around
• 2005 Moby Lift me up
• 2005 nine inch nails The hand that feeds evil
• 2005 Tocotronic Aber hier leben, nein danke
• 2005 VNV Nation Chrome
• 2005 Weezer Beverly Hills
• 2005 Wir sind Helden Nur ein Wort
• 2006 AFI Miss Murder
• 2006 Amy Winehouse Back To Black
• 2006 Billy Talent Fallen Leaves
• 2006 Breaking Benjamin The Diary of Jane
• 2006 Korpiklaani  Beer, Beer
• 2006 Muse Supermassive Black Hole
• 2006 Papa Roach I Devise My Own Demise
• 2006 Placebo Meds
• 2006 Wolfmother Mother
• 2007 Biffy Clyro Who‘s got a Match
• 2007 Editors Racing Rats
• 2007 Foo Fighters The Pretender
• 2007 Linkin Park Bleed it out
• 2007 My Chemical Romance Welcome to the Black Parade
• 2007 Nightwish Bye Bye Beautiful
• 2007 Rihanna Umbrella
• 2007 Turbostaat Harm Rochel
• 2008 Anne Clark Boy Racing
• 2008 Coldplay Viva la vida
• 2008 LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE A Pearl
• 2008 MGMT Kids
• 2008 Shinedown Diamond Eyes
• 2008 The Cranberries Salvation
• 2009 Dinosaur jr. Plans
• 2009 Green Day Know your Enemy
• 2009 Kasabian Underdog
• 2009 KONTRUST bomba
• 2009 Mando Diao Dance With Somebody
• 2010 Deftones Rocket Skates
• 2010 Deine Lakaien Gone
• 2010 Eisenfunk Pong
• 2010 gogol bordello Immigraniada (We Comin’ Rougher)
• 2010 GRAVE DIGGER Highland Farewell
• 2010 Interpol Barricade
• 2010 siberian standoff viza trans
• 2010 VIZA trans-siberian standoff
• 2011 ALESTORM Shipwrecked
• 2011 Alter Bridge Isolation
• 2011 Lykke Li I follow rivers
• 2011 Red Hot Chili Peppers The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie
• 2011 Rise Against Satellite
• 2012 ATROCITY Danse Macabre / The Great Commandment
• 2012 IN THIS MOMENT Whore
• 2012 Kraftclub Ich will nicht nach Berlin
• 2012 Slash & Myles Kennedy Anastasia
• 2013 Airbourne Back In The Game
• 2013 Avenged Sevenfold Hail To The King
• 2013 Chvrches the mother we share
• 2013 Jaune Toujours All Eyes
• 2013 lebanon hanover gallowdance
• 2013 New Model Army Between Dog and Wolf
• 2013 Tocotronic Wie wir leben wollen
• 2013 Vance Joy Riptide
• 2014 Against me! Black me out
• 2014 Broilers Ist da jemand
• 2014 Ja Panik Libertatia
• 2014 KONTRUST Just Propaganda
• 2014 Lost Frequencies Are you with me
• 2014 Mastodon High Road
• 2014 Weezer Back to the Shack
• 2015 Adam Angst Professoren
• 2015 Big Thief Masterpiece
• 2015 Coldplay Adventure of a lifetime
• 2015 Disturbed The Vengeful One
• 2015 Gloryhammer Universe on fire
• 2015 Nightwish Endless Forms most beautiful
• 2016 BATTLE BEAST King For A Day
• 2016 Billy Talent Louder than the DJ
• 2016 Lebanon Hanover Babes of the 80s
• 2016 Mono Inc. Feat. Tilo Wolff, Joachim Witt & Chris Harms Children of the Dark
• 2016 Ofenbach Be mine
• 2016 Pixies All I Think About Now
• 2016 Pixies Classic Masher
• 2017 Bloodbound Stand And Fight
• 2017 Body Count No lives matter
• 2017 Portugal the man Feel it still
• 2018 annenmaykantereit ich geh heut nicht mehr tanzen
• 2018 Heppner & Witt Was bleibt?
• 2018 Peter Heppner …und ich tanz
• 2018 TEMPERANCE The Last Hope In A World Of Hopes
• 2018 Tocotronic Electric Guitar
• 2018 VNV Nation When is future
• 2019 Corroded Breathing
• 2019 David Hasselhoff Head on
• 2019 LAHMIA Elegy For A Dying Sun
• 2019 Skunk Anansie What you do for love
• 2019 The Specials 10 Commantments
• 2019 Volbeat Volbeat - Die To Live
• 2020 Die Ärzte morgens pauken
• 2020 Pearl Jam Dance Of The Clairvoyants
• 2020 The Levellers The Men who would be king
• 2020 VILLAGERS OF IOANNINA CITY For The Innocent
• 2021 Deine Lakaien Because The Night
• 2021 Deine Lakaien Black Hole Sun
• 2021 Deine Lakaien Losing my religion
• 2021 Fury in the Slaughterhouse 1995
• 2022 Billy Talent Reckless Paradise
• 2022 Die Ärzte Dunkel
• 2022 Placebo Surrounded By Spies
• 2022 Tocotronic Jugend ohne Gott gegen Faschismus
• 2022 Tocotronic Nie wieder Krieg
• 2023 Futzle Haul on the Jib: A Recursive Sea Shanty
• 2023 Subway to Sally feat. Joachim Witt Goldener Reiter
• 2024 Bon Jovi Living Proof
• 2024 Garbage Better not lie to me
• 2024 Jamezytee Shoot away pain
• 2024 Pearl Jam Running
• 2024 Sum 41 Waiting on a twist of fate
• 2024 Moby ft. Benjamin Zephaniah Where is your pride?