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
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
I don’t remember what server it was, maybe they had a good reason. I guess around 2016 there was a short boom that resulted in a lot of inactive accounts after a few months…
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
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).
I know. But that is one of the bigger servers, and there aren’t that many at the moment. I think a facebook-style friend-based social network is going to struggle to boot-strap itself into a reasonable network density, at least in the foreseeable future. I don’t know what it would take to get non-techy pleb users to leave Facebook en masse.
Generals interest networks like Lemmy and mastodon have a much easier time getting started.
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…
That small of a userbase and they still nuke accounts for being inactive?
They don’t have a monetary incentive to bloat their figures.
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
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
I don’t remember what server it was, maybe they had a good reason. I guess around 2016 there was a short boom that resulted in a lot of inactive accounts after a few months…
Friendica is federating with Mastodon etc. and also Lemmy etc.
Seems to with work with Mbin as well
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
I think what will prove key is it federating beyond ActivityPub, as it works with Bluesky and diaspora.
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).
I know. But that is one of the bigger servers, and there aren’t that many at the moment. I think a facebook-style friend-based social network is going to struggle to boot-strap itself into a reasonable network density, at least in the foreseeable future. I don’t know what it would take to get non-techy pleb users to leave Facebook en masse.
Generals interest networks like Lemmy and mastodon have a much easier time getting started.