I’ve only made two posts so far, but everyone has given legitimate and intelligent responses to both. It’s made me realize how not used to that I had become. It’s an overwhelming positive feeling to not be nervous about sharing with this community. Thank you to all of you
@Calvinball @petrescatraian lurkers surely never 🤔 having said that I’ve been watching this this discussion thread grow and have to say I agree with the OP although like you, on Friendica also although still finding my feet a little.
I wonder if there is some sense of forums that could be obtained through use of groups, although subtly different I guess 🤔
Only really used Mastodon and Pixelfed in the past. I guess these have their place and I wouldn’t knock them esp if folks have not used in a while as it’s possible the product may have seen improvements (not sure).
Interesting times for certain, even if the rumblings over Meta are unnerving at times.
@silvercloudfox Yea. Even if there are so little people around here compared with other places, people on Mastodon and on Lemmy (to a certain degree) have been generally very nice 😁
You mean traditional forums? tbh I kinda see Lemmy as a good basis for a forum, lol. Beehaw with it’s communities being created only by admins feels like it. Then there’s FediBB which (when it loads properly) looks like a full-fledged forum (although it is lemmy-based as well).
And yea. Every platform has its place, it depends on whom 😁
I’ve been looking to get rid of Facebook for a long time myself tbh for a long time. I don’t think people will get here, tho. Friendica is more advanced than the others, while people that are on Facebook do not seem to me the ones that would even understand Mastodon (I am more tech minded so I have more patience, this is why I got to like this network). Besides that, Facebook was really built on a privacy invasive model from the get-go, as I remember that when joining it, you could import your contacts from your contact list and find other friends, and voilà, you had some friends already 😁 Friendica certainly does not have this.
@Calvinball