I may be leaving Hubzilla

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:34:37 +0100

hans@social.woefdram.nl

I'm seriously thinking about swapping #Hubzilla for #Mastodon or #Streams.

After more than 4 years, I'm tired of the cluttered interface. Earlier this week I found myself using my Mastodon account to find a post, so that I could load it into Hubzilla to reply. That's not how things should be.

This would mean, however, that I'd lose all my contacts on #Diaspora* and that was the most important reason to pick Hubzilla, back in 2019...

Life is all about priorities...

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Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:42:03 +0100

Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)

tokyo_0@mas.to

@hans Do any of the Misskey forks talk to Diaspora? There's some interesting development going on in that space, if you don't want to have to build something with Streams.

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:57:20 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) Misskey uses ActivityPub, so that should do about the same as Mastodon and/or Streams. Diaspora* uses its own protocol, and afaik only Diaspora* and Hubzilla can speak that protocol.

I haven't tried either Streams or Misskey myself yet, btw. Good point, I should do a round of evaluating different products again, like I did in 2019.

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 20:00:38 +0100

♻ Citoyen Candide ☮

citoyen_candide@diaspora-fr.org

friendica also does speak the diaspora protocol, I guess

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 20:03:54 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@♻ Citoyen Candide ☮ Hehehe, created by the same guy who created Hubzilla after that, and Streams after that 😉

It does, and maybe I should indeed try it out before I make a final decision (although "final" is pretty relative in this life, of course).

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 20:06:14 +0100

Susan ✶✶✶✶

psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com

I've seen a number of people moving to Friendica and being very happy with the experience.

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 21:19:27 +0100

Tio

tio@social.trom.tf

Our Friendica instance has a custom interface that I made in order to make it more "modern" and less cluttered. Give it a try if you'd like https://social.trom.tf - we have several themes to choose from.

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:07:54 +0100

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

I don't know how deeply you're connected with the Hubzilla scene. But @Scott M. Stolz, now also President of the recently founded Hubzilla Association, is currently developing several upgraded or entirely new UIs for Hubzilla. I think general-purpose channels will be covered, too.

I'm pretty sure the new UIs will come out this year, so we won't be stuck with that UI from 2012 any longer.

Oh, and there's also a blog-style UI in the making.

Since they're all third-party, and they most likely will stay third-party, it won't be up to @Mario Vavti to maintain them once they're released.

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 14:23:08 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Tio Thanks. So good to see this helpful attitude on the Fediverse every time.

I'm a self-hoster though, I host all my own Internet stuff myself. So either Mastodon, Friendica, Streams or Misskey: I'm going to host that myself.

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 14:39:03 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Jupiter Rowland I have no special connection to the HZ scene. Lots of friendly people, including Mario, who regularly keeps us posted.

But that foundation thing sounds interesting, I'm going to have look into that, thanks!