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BTW: We don't need FediFinder on Friendica. In the Twitter adoon settings you can activate a similar functionality that automatically follows the fediverse accounts of your Twitter contacts who put their fediverse address in their profiles.
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!Friendica Admins As you might have heard, there are issues with the Twitter API. Several favourite clients stopped working, while others (still) do. By now there hadn't been any word if there is some massive Problem or if this was some deliberate action.
Whatever is causing these issues, at least my connection still works. How about yours? Is the Twitter connector on your systems still running?
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#Music #1980s #SynthPop #NDW #Trio
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Happy 10th Birthday Friendica!
Ten years ago the 1st commit https://git.friendi.ca/friendica/friendica/commit/6348e70daa113e8b3203de8fbc919d08c90d972e to the git repository of Mistpark was made by Mike Macgirvin, a project that since has become Friendica accumulating some 27.000 commits contributing the work of more then 250 people from all around the world.
Mistpark and Friendica themes from 2010 to 2020
Together we have build a social media platform that had many faces over the years. It has grown from a decentralized communication platform into an integral part of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse and Federation. Allowing its users to interact with their friends and family across the borders of nodes, projects and physical distance outside the world of data-harvesting corporations.
Thank you Mike and everybody else who has contributed their time to the project over the years! And while we are preparing the 2020.06 release https://forum.friendi.ca/display/f3ad7b1c-745e-e63a-ca7a-80a162175644 of Friendica, lets have a big party to celebrate ten years of this wonderful part of the free social web.
friendi.ca/2020/07/02/happy-10…
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@Josef zu seiner Formulierung: twitter.com/donwinslow/status/…
The quote "When the looting starts, the shooting starts" originated by a racist white Miami police chief named Walter Headley who targeted black people in 1967 ahead of the Republican convention.
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@developers I had been at the FOSDEM these days. I spoke with many people about usability, accessibility and their experience with Friendica (when they had some). These talks supported the opinion I already got.
All people I spoke with came to the conclusion that Friendica is a configuration hell. Our problem is that we seem to have a configuration switch for every possible - and impossible - edge case. And also the problem with these configurations is that different people even don't agree upon the meaning behind the same settings. (Like what people expect from the "hide your profile" configuration)
Then due to having multiple themes we create a support nightmare where different things can be achieved in different ways on different themes.
We also allow several ways for performance the same task - which doesn't make things easier as well.
We also really should question how we work with pictures in non public posts. This don't work with ActivityPub systems, this don't work with Diaspora systems - and even with other Friendica systems we constantly are having problems with this "feature".
Also this visiting other systems and commenting directly onto their profile is something that can't work as expected as well.
We have several things that would partially work in a universe where all systems would use our protocol only. But the truth is that only 6% of the whole fediverse systems are Friendica servers and Friendica users are less than 3 per mil of the whole fediverse users. The only reasonable way is to adopt to this.
I want to clean up, I want to make Friendica tidy. Means: I want to work with frontend developers and UI/UX experts to develop a completely new look and feel. I reached out and possibly found two persons that could help here.
And the same whats valid for the frontend is also valid for the backend. I hadn't been really active in development over the past few weeks. The reason behind this was that it doesn't make fun for me anymore, I just lost interest. I'm struggling with understanding these new concepts. I do understand the motivation behind this - but I think it is done much too complicate.
I prefer the KISS principle, both for frontend and backend.
I'm currently considering two different approaches. One is to radically transform Friendica. The other is to start new and to build a comparable system mostly from scratch.
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