This is good growth for such a smaller lesser known fedi project that replaces Facebook.

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      Friendica was the fediverse, before there was a fediverse… And it was no different from other names of the era, like Sym.pati.co… DiGG, Reddit, etc etc.

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        All of those just sound easier to pronounce, even though “sympatico” is kinda longer than necessary. My point is that almost all the Fediverse software has awkward to pronounce names which doesn’t really help with the initial adoption.

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          I mean, it is what it is… The name is over a decade old, and was likely selected because it sounded “technical”. Friendica came about only a couple of years after facebook opened up for the wider public.

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          Someone mentioned a name to designate words with two syllables as a good way to name products (Twitter, Apple, Google, Netflix), but I can’t find it back.

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      And yet the dumbest name of all, the gold medalist of low-IQ nomenclature itself (Whatsapp) is literally more popular than telephones.

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        Have to disagree, WhatsApp is a great name, maybe the best named app of this entire generation of software.

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          For me it oozes cringey 2010-era hype about this newfangled buzzword “app”, which also doesn’t even rhyme with “up” except to the obviously non-native developers who clearly thought it did. Etc. We will agree to disagree!

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            Ah but even coming from a native speaker, it just flows so smoothly and feels just like saying what is arguably now the most common greeting said in English. To me it’s like the word “app” is hiding itself right in the most natural greeting, the greeting also being a symbolic distillation of the app’s purpose - there’s an elegant, simple symmetry to it in my ears, the opposite of buzzword cringe!

            But hey, opinions and assholes eh? Taste is so subjective lol. Just glad they didn’t name it iWhatsApp, then we’d agree and be big mad

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      I agree that it is an exceptional software, perhaps the best of the Fediverse, but it has a terrible name. The reason for this name was to mark a continuity with the first potentially federated social network, namely “identi.ca

      Moreover, despite the name, it is not a really friendly software, but presents several ergonomic complexities. Finally, I add that when I pronounce it with my dictation system, it is always transliterated as “free handicap”, which is a very inclusive thing, but every time I have to correct it… 🤣

      This is also why I decided to call my instance with a different name such as Poliverso, Too bad that a few months later Zuckerberg decided to launch his failed Metaverso project, which is why every time I have to explain that I did not call it that to parody the Metaverso 🤬

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        Shorten to “Frendi”, probably would be enough to get app discussed and shared more.

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    I had a Friendica account like 10 years ago. Kinda sad to hear it’s only 2.500 active users.

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      Requiring people to create an account just to see anything is a sure way to immediately drive off any potential new users.

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        Isn’t that what you want for a Facebook replacement though?

        I guess being able to browse public profiles and posts would be good, but if it’s like Facebook then wouldn’t most people be using their real names and posting about semi-personal IRL stuff?

        You’d want that stuff to only show for your friends, and maybe friends of friends

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          I mean you could use totally fake and made up profiles, I just want to see what the UI looks like and maybe literally anything about the site and how it works?

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    Let’s hope that there are also a few organisations that run Friendica instances so that the offer becomes a bit bigger. In the last two years, everyone has been totally fixated on Mastodon and many have opened a Mastodon server without realising that there were other options.

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    I’ve been looking for a Facebook alternative. It was either Diaspora or Friendica.

    Is Friendica more popular? What are some of the most popular/stable instances with the lowest chances of disappearing?

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    whats the best queer friendly instance so far that actually bans/defederates from bigots?

    genuine question so i can join

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    The tough part about something like Friendica is that it’s usefulness very dependent on how many of your friends are on it. You’d need a group of friends to all join together for it to stick.