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..

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That small of a userbase and they still nuke accounts for being inactive?

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They don't have a monetary incentive to bloat their figures.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

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..

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Friendica is federating with Mastodon etc. and also Lemmy etc.

[–] FlorisJan@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 3 weeks ago

Seems to with work with Mbin as well

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think what will prove key is it federating beyond ActivityPub, as it works with Bluesky and diaspora.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Friendica is part of the fediverse and can talk to mastodon, lemmy etc. Plenty of users out there

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does it much in practice though? I'm on mastodon and Lemmy a lot, and don't see any friendica accounts out and about...

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You wouldn't know them if you did see them. They look like any other account

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The domain name would still give it away no? I remember when narwhal.city was still a thing, I discovered lotide thanks to one user from one instance

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

I mean if you recognise friendica domain names, yeah, but most folks don't

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

True, I do see a few when I search for friendica domains, and they do have federated content.

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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).

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

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.