cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42245861

https://friendica.world/profile/randompenguin

!friendica@lemmy.ca

We’re exploring the possibility of moving our citizen science community to Friendica for improved security and ownership. We currently run a wiki at helminthictherapywiki.org and have a Facebook support group with 8,000 members, although engagement is limited (1–4 new posts per day).

We lack the skills and expertise to build this ourselves. Our team consists of two main volunteers focused on internet services (others manage social media like Instagram). One volunteer, John, is in his late 70s and slowing down, but he cares deeply about Internet security and would prefer a finished product. We can manage the Friendiverse platform once it’s set up.

Cost and Current Setup:

We pay around $30/month for the current wiki hosted on a "wikifarm" (which wasn’t a good decision). Moving the wiki to a proper MediaWiki setup on the same server as Friendica would eliminate the need for multiple servers. The wiki sees minimal traffic (1–2 users at a time, with maybe a dozen at peak times).

About John:

John is very invested in the project, as HT literally saved his life 20 years ago. He is highly security-conscious and would be thrilled to see this secure platform in place. However, he’s slowing down, and the best approach is to provide him with a finished product.

What We’re Looking For:

• An experienced individual to privately set up and install Friendica.
• Details on the cost, setup time, and whether you’d be willing to handle the server setup if we provide the cloud service.

I also need to understand any potential differences between Facebook and Friendica, such as how image uploading or other features might work differently. While I plan to search for this information, any insights you can provide would be helpful.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58305455

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A post by me on sharkey (@irelephant@calckey.world) "Friendicas api is just four apis in a trenchcoat. #friendica"

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/34245344

Request RSS reader option

Hello, everyone. I'm trying to shift to RSS for news and looking for the best way to access a feed across multiple devices.

Most recommendations I've seen are for Feedly, but the free version has some limitations like sponsored ads and no more than 100 sources. It also seems to be very corporate and starting to integrate AI into its model.

I've heard that Friendica can integrate RSS into your social feed. Does anyone have experience using Friendica as an RSS feed?

Any other good options that can sync an RSS feed across devices?

Been looking around this place properly today. And it's honestly looking pretty good right now with some nice theming options too. And considering that I've also been giving Bluesky a go, it's pretty cool that you can even link that account.

Just one though. Unless I'm dumb and I'm missing something, browsing groups doesn't seem that great at all. Like, unless you know specifically what you want to search for, it looks like your only option is to scroll through posts from groups until you find something that interests or is relevant to you.

I noticed that there's a directory for users, why not one for groups? Is something like this in the pipeline? I appreciate that a platform like this is a lot more feature heavy and complicated than something like Bluesky or even Lemmy. So I'm not making demands or anything. Just an idea that I think would make it Friendica an even more complete replacement for Facebook.

Personally what I'm looking for out of this is a space where I can crap out my own thoughts and post my stolen memes and shit on my own profile, plus have the community discussion too. On that note, it would also be nice if you could load Lemmy communities in the Friendica interface and 'Follow' them in the same manner.

And just for my questions. First, when it comes to your handle or url, what characters exactly are allowed? Because I tried a dash and a dot in my handle and it wouldn't accept it. Are you really just limited to letters and numbers?

Second question. About the language settings. Is it recommended to also have 'Undefined' selected there, in the same way as here? And why do I still see non English posts regardless? (on that note, a translation feature would be nice too)

Edit: Ok as far as languages go, I just found the language filter addon. Somehow missed it on my first round of going through the settings. Will be interesting to see how this works.

Quick Kick Start Guide To Friendica!

Hello there,

here is my contribution to the Fediverse: a guide to install a Friendica instance using Docker and Caddy.

That should help new administrators and beginners to go online easily.

Friendica deserves a try, this instance variant is neither mastodon nor pleroma, yet after testing many including Misskey forks I tend to lean on Friendica's side for my instance... will you ?

Like this, it is really good for selfhosting or single user instance on a cheap VPS. And it may scale to many users.

#friendica #fediverse #instances #selfhosting #fediadmin

The images seem to load quicker now on the local feed! Though my likes do not seem to show under posts anymore.

Why not start your own instance today!

Which one works the best and has the most features?

github.com/supertestnet/friend…

It says:

Simple marketplace plugin for friendica with bitcoin wallet support

Looks like it hasn't been worked on in years though.

I got hit with the message “504 gateway timeout”

So that people can get onboarded much more easily to perform the same functions they get out of Facebook.