Fun fact ‘e pluribus anus’ translates to ‘from many old people’
Aw man, I’m on Diaspora and I didn’t even recognise the logo.
I joined Diaspora back when Google+ went tits up. Is Anything actually happening over there?
It’s pretty dead, a lot of pods has closed down last year and it continues to shrink, they could maybe reverse the process by supporting ActivityPub or other additional protocol, but they have refused, and diaspora* protocol hasn’t gained any additional traction, sooo…
As much as Facebook sucks, these things will never replace it.
Just clicking through them, it’s apparent it suffers from the same problem lemmy has. You have to read things and follow instructions and then choose an instance…
Yeah, you lost everyone at the first step of having to follow instructions. People just want a Sign Up button, and that’s it. That’s the only step they’re willing to go through.
If, after clicking Sign up, they then have to figure out which instance (whatever that is) they have to choose, they’ll just quit right there.
Such projects desperately need some professional UX/UI people involved. They always feel like they’re designed by back-end devs.
I also can’t imagine there being any difference to the instances as the concept of “local” doesn’t really make sense like it does with Lemmy. Maybe they should obfuscate the instance selection and the sign up process just puts you onto a random instance or one that’s best suited by geographical location.
"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users
- https://discuss.online/ if you want a server located in the USA (content is still accessible from any server, the most difference latency)
- https://sopuli.xyz/ if you want a server located in the EU
- https://vger.app/ if you want an app
Feel free if you have any questions"
People need to create a similar message for Friendica
As much as Facebook sucks these things will never replace it.
Here we go again with the inaccurate fortune telling. Things can change, the code, apps and instances can improve.
I hope they do and replace Facebook. But in their current iteration, they won’t. That’s all I’m saying.
Gotta love ELSTER, my favorite social media platform.
Context
ELSTER, short for ELektronische STeuerERklärung (electronic tax return), is the official German software/web page for creating and submitting your tax return. It has the same logo as Diaspora.
Elster is also the German term for magpie.
The logo:
Tax Software called magpie
And they say Germans don’t have a sense of humor!
I doubt so. The association between magpies and theft is fairly strong in German:
(diebisch = thieving)
Source: DWDS (digital dictionary of the German language - publicly financed)
A logDice of 10.1 is extremely high by the way. For example, “war” has a score of 10.8 with “cold”, an 8.1 with “peace” and a 7.3 with “against terror”.
It’s actually not a company. It’s a website published by our government.
I’ll let you think your part about that…
