I've been using Friendica for a few years, and after playing around with other software such as #Pleroma, #Misskey and #Lemmy, I've ended up returning to the old reliable in my personal server. I'm honestly surprised to see Friendica offering a more solid offering of capabilities than many other newer #Fediverse platforms, such as #Mastodon itself. However, it still seems to be missing a few important capabilities (some of them already implemented in other AP software, some of them being improvements to the already existing capabilities of Friendica) that I would like to see implemented eventually, to finally being able to move full-time to a single Fediverse software instead of spreading my server cycles between several web-apps. Feel free to add to this list, or to recommend workarounds for any of the issues I've listed below. Also, I plan to see how to learn enough PHP in order to send PRs for a few of these, but I want to check if there's any work in progress regarding any of these issues to avoid duplicate efforts.

Issues that already exist in the tracker, roughly sorted by priority:

• Import posts from Mastodon / Misskey exported backups: see issue 6004 in GitHub.
• Ability to vote in polls, not just have them read-only: see issue 11093 in GitHub.
• Ability to import #RSS feeds and not only ActivityPub accounts: see issue 13854 in GitHub.
• Post translation, using a backend such as #LibreTranslate: see issue 12948 in GitHub.
• Merge related notifications to prevent duplicates: see issue 9729 in GitHub.
• React with emoji, as in #Misskey and derivatives: see issue 6271 in GitHub.

Issues that are already managed with an add-on, but have issues:

• Proper support for Mastodon custom emojis: the "Mastodon Custom Emojis" add-on can handle them in post content, partially, and can't handle them in user names yet.
• Handling the "NSFW" tag in federated posts: the "NSFW" add-on can detect specific words on a post, but if the post does not include them (and yet uses the "mark as NSFW" option in Mastodon), the post will be shown regardless.

Implementing new views in order to work better as a replacement for other platforms:

• Feed reader view a la #FreshRSS / #Lemmy: collapse comments and content, optionally add buttons to go to the previous/next unread item, filter by read.
• Video player /gallery view a la #PeerTube / #Pixelfed: pin media to top and comments / voting buttons to bottom.
• Dashboard view a la Tweetdeck: allow multiple columns with different filters. This might require a rewrite of the logic for each page, as each filter is currently implemented on the interface as a PHP request bound to each page load. This might fall out of scope for the default Friendica interface, and might be better served with an external web-app.

Issues that don't seem to be tracked currently, but are mostly a "nice-to-have" and have a lower priority:

• Ability to mix "what's hot" sorting with circle filtering: useful for news for example.
• Export posts in Firefish-compatible format: not mandatory, but would be handy for data migration purposes. Alternatively, one could make Firefish itself compatible with Friendica-formatted backups.

!Friendica Support

because of an open letter signed by 50 imprisioned women that was sent to us today by a family member for sharing...

i want to reflect further on how hard is to get messages trough

they wrote it by hand, then sent it to a contact i assume by letter, the i got an instagram message and got the pdf after and transcribed it. the news will be out soon, but i want to reflect on something else related to this

bc i want people to post their own content online in a way, i think people should be able to tell stories how they want to

i was thinking on what the best app may be overall and...

#tumblr is really ok for posting content
but it doesnt allow for #sound uploads 🙁((( at least, on mobile... but it has rss! and broader size limits than any fediverse instances i know about...

my thing is, why is it so hard to publish multimedia content online?

i know servers cost a lot, and thats why mastodon is so restricted with this.

but why cant we just post any kind of content? like sound, text, pdf archives, video, links and fotos is the basic. most social media allowo only one at a time. its so fristrating. especially trying to do grassroots journalism with activists. its impossible to get them to publish content in any way thats #open, has an rss feed and is readable by other #socials. meaning, everyone is on facebook getting 1 like each. i cant sleep.

like this may seem non poetical but really, we dont solve the technical side then we are stuck forever in empty echo chambers

we need astral rss and federation to be able to even start to compete with major media. its on us to federate everything, no matter the cost. we need to reach people somehow, enter through their phones and get these messages through, and make them forget the tv.

i really like
https://vozesdedentro.noblogs.org

thei're a support group for people who have been jailed and help them get their letters through.

i've syndicated their blog to our own news portal, and its now being re-re-shared on anrachist federation which to me is already a really good situation. an example of how i think rss is really cool

#indymedia
#acitvitypub
#indieweb
#rss
#journalism

Hallo !Friendica Support

ich habe ein Problem mit einem "normalen" Konto. Ich habe mir dieses eingerichtet um RSS Feeds abzugreifen und diese dann im Fediverse übergreifend nutzen zu können. Dem Konto kann man aus dem Grund nur mit Bestätigung folgen.
Hierbei habe ich folgende Einstellungen vorgenommen (Screenshot).
Allerdings wenn ich den Menü Punkt "Spiegeln als weitergeleitet Beiträge" auswähle und speichere, wird hier automatisch "Spiegeln als meine eigenen Beiträge ausgewählt" und ich kann dies auch nicht verändern.

Liegt hier ein Fehler vor oder warum funktioniert dies nicht?

I have a problem with a "normal" account. I have set up this to pick up RSS feeds and then use them across Fediverse. The account can be followed for the reason only with confirmation.
Here I have made the following settings (screenshot).
However, when I select the menu item "Mirror as forwarded posts" and save, here automatically "Mirror as my own posts selected" and I can not change this.

Is there an error here or why does this not work?

#account #problem #selection #mirror #posts #rss