Informa Pirata
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This is not really a request for support, but food for thought on Friendica groups
Good evening everyone!
This is not a request for support, but an invitation to reflect on Friendica groups and their graphical representation in the Friendica interface.
1) Try going to the link https://lemmy.ml/c/helpers@forum.friendi.ca
This is how Lemmy interprets Friendica groups (yes, there are still some things that don't work well, but for now we can focus on the interface: Who knows if @Dessalines and @nutomic will ever be able to solve these problems?).
Here are a couple of screenshots
2) Try downloading a Lemmy app like Raccoon (it's a recent and very promising app developed by @Diego Beraldin ) and view the Helpers community.
These are the screenshots of the app
Basically, I would be really happy if the Friendica interface (or at least an app) managed to enhance the Friendica groups which, in my opinion, represent one of the most beautiful added values of the Fediverse.
I add a further "off topic" which is that if an app for Mastodon managed to represent Friendica groups in such an intuitive way, Friendica would only have to gain.
Unfortunately today Friendica groups are a wonderful idea, but their use is still very bizarre; at the same time Friendica could be the killer application of the Social Fediverse, but at the moment it seems more like a (very fun) game reserved for geeks...
Could a radical rethink of the interface represent the future path?
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hoergen
in reply to Informa Pirata • • •This is definitely a post for github or at least the developer group. And I don't understand the whole prequel with all the screenshots to come to the point in the last 2 paragraphs.
Try your luck. I gave up years ago.
anubis2814
in reply to Informa Pirata • • •If you have any specific suggestions, put in a new feature request at github. https://github.com/friendica/friendica
Piece meal suggestions will be more likely to cause changes than an over all large concept. More people than ever are involved with volunteering on the site. Friendica also has no head and doesn't take donations just donated time. Friendica has been like building a mansion verses building a shack and has taken a lot longer than most other platforms. It was not a great platform in 2018 when i first logged in but still liked it better than dispora and Mastodon. I have a tutorial video series from 2020 and it was a mess and working on one for this year and its so much better and different.
Its not the surperior product no one knows about.
Diego Beraldin
in reply to Informa Pirata • • •anubis2814
in reply to Diego Beraldin • • •Also, the groups are specific to the DFRN protocol. It would need to get expanded into the activitypub protocol as well. Groups have been kind of a neglected feature here because there are so many issues that needed fixing first. Now that those are out of the way they will probably have more time to work on groups. I think thats what you need to add. Make groups interoperable with activitypub.
Informa Pirata
in reply to anubis2814 • • •@anubis2814 I understand your point, but GUP groups are sparse and poor and have not led to the development of a way to represent them intuitively. To date, however, the Lemmy communities are the best example of implementation of AcivityPub groups and, above all, the most intelligent way of graphical representation of ActivityPub groups
@Hank G ☑️ @Diego Beraldin
Informa Pirata
in reply to Diego Beraldin • • •However, I fear that it is VERY UNLIKELY: a well-made app has rather high costs (between 50k and 100k for a good Android app; 200k for a good iOS and Android app) and the Friendica user base is small: in the world there are more Black Rhinos than Friendica users!
anubis2814
in reply to Informa Pirata • • •janTeko@androiddev.social If you are looking to help out with the android app we might need figure out a front end new feature review in the pipeline to give you a heads up so you can keep on top of it. @Hank G ☑️
Diego Beraldin
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in reply to Diego Beraldin • • •Hank G ☑️
in reply to Diego Beraldin • • •anubis2814
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