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This is good growth for such a smaller lesser known fedi project that replaces Facebook.

    • BlemboTheThird@lemmy.caEnglish
      472·
      12 days ago

      The only reason Facebook doesn’t sound dumb is that we’ve been saying it for like 15 years

      • ApollosArrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        12 days ago

        I believe Facebook’s name came from an actual thing. The company was created for college students. Many campuses, would give face books that had students and professors from the universities.

      • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
        106·
        12 days ago

        Nah, it’s a good name, has a nice ring to it and if two syllables. Friendica is hard to pronounce and sounds awkward.

        • palordrolap@fedia.io
          191·
          12 days ago

          “Instagram” is, at least in my opinion, about as awkward as “Friendica” to say, and has millions of users. It wins marginally on spelling, but how often does the average user write or type the full name of a site anyway?

        • petrescatraian@libranet.de
          1·
          11 days ago

          Same as Instagram or Telegram. Really, stop nitpicking the name of FOSS projects excessively. I get that they’re not the best, but they’re not really a dealbreaker for most of the people outside the marketing departments.

          Otoh, what if we would all call it Friendi as well (just like we did with Insta? Or Fren?

    • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
      151·
      12 days ago

      Friendica was the fediverse, before there was a fediverse… And it was no different from other names of the era, like Sym.pati.co… DiGG, Reddit, etc etc.

      • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
        33·
        12 days ago

        All of those just sound easier to pronounce, even though “sympatico” is kinda longer than necessary. My point is that almost all the Fediverse software has awkward to pronounce names which doesn’t really help with the initial adoption.

        • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
          4·
          12 days ago

          I mean, it is what it is… The name is over a decade old, and was likely selected because it sounded “technical”. Friendica came about only a couple of years after facebook opened up for the wider public.

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      113·
      12 days ago

      And yet the dumbest name of all, the gold medalist of low-IQ nomenclature itself (Whatsapp) is literally more popular than telephones.

      • Benjaben@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        12 days ago

        Have to disagree, WhatsApp is a great name, maybe the best named app of this entire generation of software.

        • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          42·
          12 days ago

          For me it oozes cringey 2010-era hype about this newfangled buzzword “app”, which also doesn’t even rhyme with “up” except to the obviously non-native developers who clearly thought it did. Etc. We will agree to disagree!

          • Benjaben@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            12 days ago

            Ah but even coming from a native speaker, it just flows so smoothly and feels just like saying what is arguably now the most common greeting said in English. To me it’s like the word “app” is hiding itself right in the most natural greeting, the greeting also being a symbolic distillation of the app’s purpose - there’s an elegant, simple symmetry to it in my ears, the opposite of buzzword cringe!

            But hey, opinions and assholes eh? Taste is so subjective lol. Just glad they didn’t name it iWhatsApp, then we’d agree and be big mad

    • InformaPirata@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      12 days ago

      I agree that it is an exceptional software, perhaps the best of the Fediverse, but it has a terrible name. The reason for this name was to mark a continuity with the first potentially federated social network, namely “identi.ca”

      Moreover, despite the name, it is not a really friendly software, but presents several ergonomic complexities. Finally, I add that when I pronounce it with my dictation system, it is always transliterated as “free handicap”, which is a very inclusive thing, but every time I have to correct it… 🤣

      This is also why I decided to call my instance with a different name such as Poliverso, Too bad that a few months later Zuckerberg decided to launch his failed Metaverso project, which is why every time I have to explain that I did not call it that to parody the Metaverso 🤬

      • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 days ago

        Shorten to “Frendi”, probably would be enough to get app discussed and shared more.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    151·
    12 days ago

    whats the best queer friendly instance so far that actually bans/defederates from bigots?

    genuine question so i can join

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    12 days ago

    I’ve been looking for a Facebook alternative. It was either Diaspora or Friendica.

    Is Friendica more popular? What are some of the most popular/stable instances with the lowest chances of disappearing?

    • Fitik@fedia.io
      13·
      12 days ago

      1. Diaspora* only supports diaspora protocol. It has about a few thousands MAU I’d say. If you use it you can interact with Diaspora* users and with Friendica/Hubzilla users from servers that have the diaspora addon. You can see a list of Diaspora* pods here.

      2. Friendica on the other hand natively supports ActivityPub, and has addons for BlueSky, Diaspora* and Tumblr (Not all servers have them enabled). It has 3k MAU, but you can communicate with much wider range of folk. There’s also the Friendica directory, allowing you to find interesting folk to follow much more easily. If you want a stable instance I can recommend https://friendica.world/ , it’s managed by the admins of lemmy.world .

      • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        12 days ago

        Thanks. Yeah after further considerations I went with Friendica. And yes I created my account on Friendica.world also. I think it has a better shot at surviving. But we never know. It takes one fuck-up and everything could go to shit.

        • petrescatraian@libranet.de
          6·
          11 days ago

          I would have recommended you mine or venera.social. They’re around 10 years old or something, so quite some time. But they’ve temporarily closed signups. nerdica.net and anonsys.net have also been around for quite some time, although the former had some problems last year and lost years of database. ouch.

          Then there’s social.trom.tf, which has some of the most wonderful custom themes I’ve seen on Friendica, but their opinions on stuff are a bit weird for me…

          For the rest I don’t know that much.

  • Phegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 days ago

    The tough part about something like Friendica is that it’s usefulness very dependent on how many of your friends are on it. You’d need a group of friends to all join together for it to stick.