• @naught101
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    2310 hours ago

    The software might be, but what makes a social network is the network effect, and the biggest public english friendica server has a few hundred users.

    I had an account in like 2016, but it got deleted after a few months due to inactivity…

    • @[email protected]
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      25 hours ago

      The thing about Federation is that one server of a few hundred users can federate with all the other servers of a few hundred units and also other Federated services.

      The next thing you know, you have a social network graph of millions of people, on thousands of servers (and not one ad).

    • @Iheartcheese
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      1710 hours ago

      That small of a userbase and they still nuke accounts for being inactive?

      • chingadera
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        75 hours ago

        They don’t have a monetary incentive to bloat their figures.

        • @Iheartcheese
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          Letting people who aren’t on all the time keep their accounts isn’t really bloating the figures. Deleting you after a few months of inactivity is a dick move yo

          • chingadera
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            24 hours ago

            Yeah I’d agree that that’s a short amount of time. I was moreso just giving my opinion on why a for profit platform may not delete anyone unless they explicitly have to or are asked to

    • Ada
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      9 hours ago

      Friendica is part of the fediverse and can talk to mastodon, lemmy etc. Plenty of users out there

    • poVoq
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      Friendica is federating with Mastodon etc. and also Lemmy etc.

      • @rockSlayer
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        24 hours ago

        Friendica is starting to seem like a fantastic option to serve as a hub account to the fediverse! There’s a reason people liked Facebook at one point, and I think they’re on the right track to advancing the idea with less corrupting influences