Is Friendica really the best choice?
Petros At FreeLab
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Friendica:
The code is public, and your information is private. Exactly opposite to FB and other "walled gardens".
Certain features of Friendica we may be interested in:
- Decentralised architecture with no central authority or ownership.
- Extensible via third-party plugin modules and themes. A growing number of both are currently available.
- Server-to-server military grade message encryption (on supported networks)
- Private conversation groups – on these pages all communications are restricted to group members – similar to Google+ “circles” or Diaspora “aspects”
- Optionally “expire” old content after a certain period of time. The content is also removed from all other Friendica servers which might be holding a copy.
- Location and other private information embedded in uploaded photos from cell phones is stripped
- Download your personal data. It all belongs to you.
- Facebook contacts and posts may be imported and become an extension of the Friendica network.
So, let's talk about setting up a test server.
Marcin Thu 2 Oct 2014 11:55AM
Others:
Diaspora
RetroShare
…or more microblogging/twitter like:
Twister (blockchain based)
pump.io
Michał Różański Thu 2 Oct 2014 12:03PM
I use Retroshare with my friends but i think it not very attractive and too complicated for ordinary user who migrate from facebook
Petros At FreeLab Thu 2 Oct 2014 12:11PM
How about keeping key functionalities separate? Friendica vs RetroShare - their intended strengths can hardly be compared. Perhaps we need some sort of comparison table, to see what products are substititive (Friendica, Diaspora) and which are synergetic (Friendica, Wordpress).
Generally, please, keep your posts a bit verbose - if we really want to bring some real users, we cannot use the Trasz "Doczytaj" approach [internal Warsaw HS joke ;-)]
Petros At FreeLab Thu 2 Oct 2014 12:18PM
My two major reasons to promote Friendica are:
1, Connectivity; AFAIK Friendica is the only system INTENDED to get networked with every possible social networking platform. Even walled gardens ar available, more or less.
2. Scalability. By design, Friendica server can be installed at home and even on a personal computer, still keeping connectivity with the world. Both for the privacy control and for possible internet shutdowns it is the best approach.
Marcin Thu 2 Oct 2014 12:31PM
I have a big problem with Friendica namely: uncertain development future.
It seems Freindica got discontinued in favor of something called Project RED.
see: http://friendica.com/node/59
Currently Friendica is pretty ugly and not nice to use. If it's dumped in this state and this Red project is going to be developed, in an unknown timeframe, then I would recommend Diaspora, which had its problems, but seems to have steered out of them.
Marcin Thu 2 Oct 2014 12:33PM
Regarding scalability: is federation really scalable?? ( http://wiki.socialswarm.net/Beyond_the_federation )
Petros At FreeLab Thu 2 Oct 2014 12:52PM
- http://friendica.com/node/57 "Is Friendica "going away"? Not at all." As we saw it with Diaspora - there is always an uncertainty. We just need to take decision and live with it.
- I did not get the gist of that federation problem. How it applies to Friendica, especially being deployed within cahoot framework (which, I believe, assumes everybody can do it)? I see that socialswarm is inactive AND trying to push another product. It limits my trust.
Marcin Thu 2 Oct 2014 12:56PM
#2 - i need to do more research on this. The problem is that scaling is not always as easy as it sounds. Also i need to check out how federation works privacy-wise (how much servers share with one another)
Petros At FreeLab Thu 2 Oct 2014 1:19PM
Please keep in mind that we are looking for the best solution available - not the best theoretical solution. :-)
Petros At FreeLab · Wed 1 Oct 2014 3:18AM
Here's an infographics on Friendica - just for starters.