For following through?

Well, it’s posted here as a link, so I guess it’s not here via federation.

Also I think different fedi apps support different AP content types, so possible that Lemmy can’t display it?

Man, people got used to having the whole internet in their pocket from barely knowing it existed in like 15 years. There are already cultural metaphors for federation. People will grok that shit in no time when they need to. But it will take the network effect forcing them to learn it that will get people over the hill.

Countries? Or groups of people?

Kinda blows my mind that people think that shit is going to happen over night… That’s hundreds of millions of people…

Huh, a friendica post in the wild on the Lemmy.world front page. Cool!

True, I do see a few when I search for friendica domains, and they do have federated content.

Does it much in practice though? I’m on mastodon and Lemmy a lot, and don’t see any friendica accounts out and about…

I know. But that is one of the bigger servers, and there aren’t that many at the moment. I think a facebook-style friend-based social network is going to struggle to boot-strap itself into a reasonable network density, at least in the foreseeable future. I don’t know what it would take to get non-techy pleb users to leave Facebook en masse.

Generals interest networks like Lemmy and mastodon have a much easier time getting started.

I don’t remember what server it was, maybe they had a good reason. I guess around 2016 there was a short boom that resulted in a lot of inactive accounts after a few months…

The software might be, but what makes a social network is the network effect, and the biggest public english friendica server has a few hundred users.

I had an account in like 2016, but it got deleted after a few months due to inactivity…