I find it very weird watching people complaining that the fediverse doesn't have certain features, features that it clearly does have on thousands of instances.
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FBXL Social started on Friendica, and it has a lot of things about it to really like. Unlike mastodon descendants, it shows threads by default. In addition, it supports federating with GnuSocial, but more importantly it natively supports RSS so you can get all kinds of great content from mainstream sources on your feed without them having to join the fediverse.
Unfortunately, federating with php just wasn't performing for me, so my posts would take forever to federate. I'll own the fact that it's probably because my server was underpowered and had too little memory and a slow spinning hard drive, but when I moved to pleroma because it was lighter, I was seeing posts federate instantly and that was enough to keep me on it. Later I moved to Soapbox-fe and rebased.
Lots of great options, and lots of options for completely different things, such as peertube for video and lotide (or lemmy) for reddit style discussion boards.
The way everything connects together seems like the future to me. The way there isn't actually a CEO of the fediverse seems like the only way forward from my perspective -- many of us saw Google go from "don't be evil" to something some of us see as objectively evil, and many people loved twitter until Elon Musk bought it. As long as one person can control everything, that person can change even if you agree with them and like them today.
Unfortunately, federating with php just wasn't performing for me, so my posts would take forever to federate. I'll own the fact that it's probably because my server was underpowered and had too little memory and a slow spinning hard drive, but when I moved to pleroma because it was lighter, I was seeing posts federate instantly and that was enough to keep me on it. Later I moved to Soapbox-fe and rebased.
Lots of great options, and lots of options for completely different things, such as peertube for video and lotide (or lemmy) for reddit style discussion boards.
The way everything connects together seems like the future to me. The way there isn't actually a CEO of the fediverse seems like the only way forward from my perspective -- many of us saw Google go from "don't be evil" to something some of us see as objectively evil, and many people loved twitter until Elon Musk bought it. As long as one person can control everything, that person can change even if you agree with them and like them today.