Mastodawn

"The server my [Friendica] instance is on is quite slow, often leaving me with a spinning wheel whenever I want to follow a new account. I’m not talking about a 2 second lag - more like 20 seconds at times, or even more."

@elena, 2024

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-3-friendica/

This has consistently been my experience with testing #Friendica. The feature set is amazing, but the performance of the aging GLAMP stack and the UX of the 'squeeze it wherever it fits' interface leave a lot to be desired. A shame.

The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 3: Friendica)

A "show and tell" of my favorite features of Friendica, which has fast become my favorite place in the Fediverse

Elena Rossini

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Droppie [infosec] 🐨

1d ago

@strypey fwiw, i have recently returned to Masto from #Friendica [via Sharkey] for two specific reasons, this agonising galling lethargy / latency being one. it's such a great pity 🥺️@[email protected]

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Strypey 1d ago

@MsDropbear42
> i have recently returned to Masto from Friendica [via Sharkey]

Did you mean returned to Misskey from Friendica?

> for two specific reasons, this agonising galling lethargy / latency being one

.. and the other?

My plan is to use Friendica primarily as a publishing platform, and for lengthy discussions where 500 char posts don't cut it. This account for everything else. We'll see how it goes.

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🧊 freezr 🥶1d ago

@strypey @MsDropbear42

Friendica has been always the slowest, even when Diaspora was bossing around and Mastodon was just a tiny shy fart...

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Strypey

@freezr
> Friendica has been always the slowest

I presume there were reasons Mike moved on to create Hubzilla. They must have been backend reasons, as the interfaces of Mike's apps all look pretty much the same.

The only reason for Friendica to exist in 2026 - at least in its current form - is that nobody has built a fediverse server on a production-grade stack (Rust, Elixir, Go, even Python) that has all the same power user features.

Maybe someone could build this on Bonfire or Emissary?