Mastodawn

Sarah Peck 📰🦣Jul 22, 2025

Dæmon S.Jul 21, 2025

@[email protected]

For me, Friendica is and has been partially up. I even posted something on my own profile Saturday and it managed to federate to other Fediverse platforms (Mastodon and Calckey).

For me, only specific functionalities aren't working, such as searching for federated content (such as this thread on Lemmy, for which Friendica returns "No result"), as well as (and this seems to be the major bottleneck) the "/network" tab.

The "/network" tab ("My friend's conversations") will definitely return Gateway Timeout. It's an alias to the index page (i.e. the page loaded when friendica.world is accessed via typing friendica.world on the browser and hitting enter), which will also return Gateway Timeout.

Being aware of this, my approach has been accessing Friendica.World through direct URLs for parts outside the "My Friend's conversations" tab (e.g. the direct link to my own /profile, or the direct link for DMs).

Sometimes it'll return "Service Unavailable" or something similar ("No server is available to handle the request"), to which I simply wait a bit then try to reload until it loads.

So, my advice is trying to:
1. access Friendica using direct URLs (e.g. your own profile's URL, someone else's contact URL, or friendica.world/message) instead of accessing the main.
2. avoid clicking/going to "My Friend's Conversations" as it'll certainly result in "Gateway Timeout"
3. when faced with "Service Unavailable", wait a few seconds and try to reload.
4. when needing to interact with posts outside Friendica (e.g. Lemmy), prefer using other platforms (e.g. I'm using Calckey to reply to your Lemmy thread) because the fetch of federated content isn't working properly.

I suspect that the downtime stems from the way the "My Friend's conversations" is requested by default whenever a Friendica.world user tries to access the instance's website, so this may keeping the server stuck in a bottleneck trying to pull federated content.

Sarah Peck 📰🦣Jul 7, 2025

Ruud May 30, 2025

I've created a community on Lemmy for keeping track of the issues on Friendica.World... unfortunaterly friendica.world is currently down so can't post the link there yet...

https://lemmy.world/c/friendicaworld

#Friendica

Friendica.World status, support and issues - Lemmy.World

This community is for status, support and issues on the Friendica.World instance

Sarah Peck 📰🦣Jun 15, 2025

dansup Jun 13, 2025

"The Facebook of the Fediverse"

https://livefasteattrashraccoon.github.io/2025/06/13/what-makes-friendica-shine.html

#friendica #fediverse

Friendica: the Swiss Army knife of the Fediverse

While most fediverse platforms force you to choose between microblogging, photo sharing, or link aggregation, one platform refuses to make you pick just one.

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Sarah Peck 📰🦣Mar 30, 2025

Fedi.Tips Mar 27, 2025

There is a really good privacy feature on Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse:

When you post a link on Mastodon etc, it remains exactly as you posted it. There is no analytics or tracking going on, no one is monitoring clicks on links.

By contrast, on Twitter/X and Bluesky the links people post are redirected so clicks can be monitored. We don't know exactly what Musk or Bluesky do with this info, but they do it by redirecting all links to sites they control (t.co & go.bsky.app).

#FediTips

Sarah Peck 📰🦣Feb 23, 2025

Wren Reilly Feb 22, 2025

"Heehee daft Americans" is not helpful.

They are gerrymandered and voting is suppressed.

If you don't have racist voter ID laws, and have an address registration system instead of "attach several utility bills to this form that you have to travel hours to submit", you do not have the same obstacles as US voters.

If you have a parliament instead of Congress, your vote matters more. Third and fourth and fifth parties have a hope in hell.

And yet, AfD and Reform are getting a fifth of the vote in places. Freely, openly.

Don't be smug and xenophobic. Watch the patterns happening anywhere there is a white European majority in power. "Black people" this and "migrants that" are both white supremacists coming for your social safety nets.

Sarah Peck 📰🦣Feb 23, 2025

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Sarah Peck 📰🦣Feb 17, 2025

pixelfed Feb 15, 2025

Import from Instagram has been re-enabled!

We're working on improving support for older archives, with our update expected next week!

https://pixelfed.social/settings/import

pixelfed

Pixelfed

Sarah Peck 📰🦣Feb 9, 2025

pixelfed Feb 9, 2025

We're not only building Pixelfed, but also Loops, a TikTok alternative!

We need your support now more than ever, please spread the word about our Kickstarter!

The future is federated, and belongs to the people.

Boost if you agree ✨

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?ref=1hx75e

#pixelfed #loops #fediverse #mastodon #kickstarter

Sarah Peck 📰🦣Feb 7, 2025

dansup Feb 7, 2025

New Pixelfed update for iOS is now available ✨

This is the best email you can get as an iOS developer 😎

Sarah Peck 📰🦣Feb 7, 2025

pixelfed Feb 7, 2025

Stories + Pixelfed

Want early access to the new Stories feature on iOS?

Make sure you're on our TestFlight and look out for an update this weekend.

If you prefer not to see Stories, you will be able to hide the carousel from your feed.

And yes, they federate to other Pixelfed servers ✨

#stories #comingSoon

Friendica (main social account)	https://friendica.world/profile/sarahpeck
Pixelfed (photography)	https://pixelfed.social/sarahpeck
Pet pics, Ralph memorial	https://pixelfed.social/ralphtater