Sorry if, like Steve Jobs, I believe that great design is part of the efficacy of any frameworks. My apologies to Friendica fans.

After spending (wasting) half a day exploring the eventuality of interesting posts and trying to change settings while waiting for anything to load, I closed my account despite my sincere efforts to appreciate Friendica.

Lesson learned: these hours would have been more enjoyable painting watercolors.

Apologies to Friendica fans if reporting my experience may sound exasperating.
I'm fully aware that Mastodon -is not- the fediverse but only a share of it and that Friendica is not a commercial venture, yet I observe that Mastdon is finely designed, and returns insightful content and is less time-consuming.

On a side note, I express my disapproval of Bluesky.

#report #fediverse #experience #Friendica #Mistpark #Mastondon #Bluesky #interface #timeconsuming #content #subjectmatters

I signed-up on Friendica after a federated networks advocated that this Fediverse had way more features than Mastdon and unlike the later, Friendica is a genuine 'social' network.

Trouble is that although Friendica has plenty of features and components we do not find on Mastondon, everything loaded extremely slowly, at every clicks and much slower than with Mastodon over TOR.

Randomly browsing the 'feeds' on Friendica, I was delighted not to see so many cats photographs as on Mastodon but mainly witnessed technology veneration imagery, computing subject matters as if I was on Stack Overflow or a developers subreddit, most post were about the Fediverse itself and I could only stumble on very few societal related posts.

Worst, Friendica interface is clumsy and looks like it was designed in the 1990's. I can only assume that the interface didn't change much since Mistpark (better name) was launched in 2010.

#report #fediverse #experience #Friendica #Mistpark #Mastondon #interface #timeconsuming #content #subjectmatters