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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?
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..
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
Friendica is part of the fediverse and can talk to mastodon, lemmy etc. Plenty of users out there
Does it much in practice though? I'm on mastodon and Lemmy a lot, and don't see any friendica accounts out and about...
Friendica is federating with Mastodon etc. and also Lemmy etc.
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
Seems to with work with Mbin as well
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.