Friendica - A Decentralized Federated Open-Source Social Network That You Can Self-Host

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 18:24:03 -0300

gadgeteer@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Friendica is a decentralized open-source social network which federates with many other social networks including diaspora*, Hubzilla, and the Fediverse of social networks. It can mirror too with Twitter and IFTTT, or export posts to Discourse, libertree, Tumblr, Wordpress and e-mail.

It is a good candidate for being an alternative to Facebook, and you can either join a public server, or self-host your own instance.

In this video I give an overview of Friendica's functionality and features, a comparison with Hubzilla, a look at it's interface, and a tour through the settings menu. I also make the case for it being a cleaner way to use Twitter.

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Alternative to Facebook? Friendica is Open Source and can be Self-Hosted
by Danie van der Merwe on YouTube
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Tue, 19 Oct 2021 08:37:11 -0300

kris

kris@hub.libranet.de

That would be an idea for you to compare Friendica and Hubzilla. Not to say what they both do but what is the differences. For exemple Nomadic identity for Huzbzilla or what is the advantage of friendica over of hubzilla

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 11:30:13 -0300

Danie van der Merwe

gadgeteer@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Thanks, yes maybe I did not explain that too well on the slide. It was showing some similarities, but also differences. My Hubzilla video would also show off lots of the additional Hubzilla stuff.

Basically Hubzilla has Zot protocol with nomadic and cloned channel functionality to a different server. Hubzilla has the social stuff with additional add-ons, but lots of other functions like cloud services, web page publishing, etc. Can be more complex to use all that functionality.

Friendica has the DFRN protocol but no cloned or mirrored channels. It misses out on the cloud publishing, web pages, etc as well as all the additional types of add-ons and modules that Hubzilla has. But it is a bit simpler and easier to administer and focusses mainly on the social networking aspects and connecting to other social networks.

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 12:43:45 -0300

kris

kris@hub.libranet.de

I see you explain it in a part of the video. It is really a nice and detailed video.

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 13:00:46 -0300

Danie van der Merwe

gadgeteer@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Thanks yes, that was where I was trying to explain it

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 18:05:51 -0300

Danie van der Merwe

gadgeteer@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

A better diagram is at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Fediverse_small_information.png showing how Hubzilla, Friendica, and other social networks communicate across which protocols in the Fediverse