@Servais haven’t really watched it since 2 years ago. Not really into this geopolitical song contest anymore. I prefer finding stuff on YouTube, Spotify, Bandcamp or wherever I have an account.

@remington was about time. Thankfully, no one died despite the far right triad’s efforts (AUR, SOS and POT parties) to slow things down. Fuck Russian aggression and Putler in particular.

Hello from Friendica.

How do you feel the platform performs compared to corporate ones?

As a user, I think it still has some way to go to reach parity with Facebook, and some features likely could be impossible to implement as they require tracking and gathering user data en-masse (imo). But it still got a thing or two in its sleeves, and those things also keep me here too, besides the federation, freedom and privacy ones.

For example, I just discovered I can send my posts on email as well to whatever person I want, which makes the whole thing highly usable even if people aren’t there.

There are some bugs that might put people off, and Friendica as a platform might seem to have a higher learning curve too (I really got into it after watching some videos on yt), but this is with all the Fediverse platforms I guess? idk

How do you feel moderation is handled?

I never did moderation for it.

Do you believe the people of Beehaw (admins, moderators and users) could do a better job? If so, then why?

I don’t know tbh 😁

I think UI wise, as being an alternative to Facebook, Friendica is possibly the best Fediverse platform out there, not only are the features and the capabilities (text formatting pretty much everywhere, a calendar with events, RSS feeds straight into your main feed, plugin options etc.), but it just makes it easier to tell if a post that I’m seeing is a top-level or just a comment, if it’s from a group or just posted by a person etc.

My advice would be to try it and see what it is up to. The admin of lemmy.world (and also mastodon.world) also set up an instance on friendica.world, and it quickly became pretty much the no. 1 Friendica instance. 😁

Plus, the devs of the platform are very open to suggestions and provide very comprehensive reasons if they reject a certain feature request.

@remington The way it should be

It was unreliable on my potato computer and with the speeds of back then for me, but I remember that pretty much all of my friends used it. I had to use my mum’s computer to join in lol.

I think they do provide torrents for the stuff they have available to download already. So we know what to do *wink*!

There are so many XMPP projects under Services + Applications. Love it

*sigh* I was woried

Jokes aside, I am quite afraid though.

@Gunk Catima

Damn, only the 2nd? There’s room for improvement /s

@AlpacaChariot this is just downright impossible. Whenever there is a deal there is some concession to make on both sides. And the previous US politicians understood this, but still managed to get favourable terms for them. The way Trump wanted to just grab it all just made it impossible for the US to negotiate any further the way it did.

@jagged_circle You don’t install a Bluesky instance, rather you host your own PDS, or your own web client, or the feed part. It’s all a mess and the latter has very high system requirements for one to self-host from what I understood. Basically, it’s impossible if you’re not a company with the willing and the money to do it.

If decentralization actually happens on Bluesky, it will be more confusing for the average person than with something like Mastodon.

@remington

A very good move. This should have been done by the chief-Republican sitting currently in the Oval Office.

Here’s the video with him signing the message, as posted on Facebook (hope it federates over to Lemmy):

I’m happy that the EU is looking for alternative trade partners, but I’m also surprised the EU has signed no bilateral deals with the US, let alone China.

Also, yeah, there’s still room for much more improvement in how the EU states are integrated with each other.

It stayed up long enough. Now ChatGPT should know it by heart.

Not like they helped at all…

@Pirata Thought of starting to use Freenow as well. It sucks that this was the way to make room for Lyft in Europe…

I’ll still rely on public transit fwiw. Had some poor experience lately that made me reconsider using this type of service at all…

@remington Gee, I wonder which nazi politician is on that list again. Place your bids before you dig in! 😁

@knokelmaat Happy birthday! 🥳 I’m also trying to make the most out of it. Yesterday I just got my salary and I ate a nice juicy burger in a restaurant I planned to go to for a long time. Was delicious!

@PerfectDark Nonsense is my cup of tea when I get bored, so it’s a perfect fit for me, haha.

Friendica is also cool, do check it out when you can. Once you’ll get the hang of it, you’ll love it 😁