@cupcakezealot oh, I see

@rbn I was expecting this 🙁 glad that you found it more helpful, though 😁 probably with some demand they will also expand to more countries in Europe.

@HunterLF

@cupcakezealot I like that they support indie creators as well, but Valve also did wonders in regard to gaming on Linux in general. I personally support both, as long as they are not supportive in any way to the current Trump administration.

@HunterLF yeah, we never had Amazon. eMag is the big player here. I saw they’re also present in Bulgaria and Hungary but I’m not sure how big are they there.

@rbn

@fxomt yep

@cupcakezealot wasn’t Itch also American?

@Blaze

@fxomt found it in my local supermarket too

@Lazycog I quite enjoy it. I’m using it more than I expected, mostly due to the Twitter waves, Reddit waves etc.

I never expected it to take over my social media usage so much. As a place, it generally has a chill vibe, although, as it is smaller, it kinda tends to take from the vibe of the other platforms it connects to (Lemmy, Mastodon etc.). You can have groups, pages or events just like you can on Facebook. There’s no Marketplace, which is what seems to affect many people (okay, well, there is an addon for that, but it has been abandoned since 2020 and I saw no instance using it), but I wasn’t using it in the first place, so that’s fine.

As I said, there’s more activity on other platforms, so Friendica does come in handy as an aggregator. My feed is generally filled with Mastodon accounts, Lemmy communities and Flipboard news publications, with Threads as a filling for some accounts that didn’t make it further into the non-Meta Fediverse (yet) (you can count these on your hands though).

how comfortable are people with that on friendica in general?

Well, Friendica has more privacy controls than the 4 basic ones of Mastodon (Public, Unlisted, Followers or DM). You can leave content public or you can restrict it to certain people, circles, you can restrict certain people to see it etc. - it’s pretty much the extensive permission set of Facebook, and the same applies to pictures too.

Sadly, anything non-public or non-followers-only cannot be seen by people on Mastodon afaik, probably due to incompatible permission types. But you can use Mastodon apps to use Friendica and it accepts Mastodon permissions too.

Almost all my friends are on Facebook or other centralized platforms, but I enjoy the ability to do some long form content here.

I also created a megathread here with some resources and things to know if you want to get started.
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