• naught101@lemmy.world
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    11 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…

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      6 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).

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          4 hours ago

          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

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            4 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

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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

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      11 hours ago

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

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        5 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