It won’t replace anything. It’s just another alternative.

Friendica has its advantages. Hubzilla has its advantages. (streams) has its advantages. (streams) can’t replace either because both have features that (streams) will never implement.

Always the same.

“The Fediverse in its entirety is objectively unuseable and repulsive unless it invests $100M into corporate-level UIs and corporate-level branding/brand design. What do you mean, the Fediverse doesn’t have $100M?”

No idea. I’ve stopped using diaspora* eons ago.

Ironically, Google+ was an all-out diaspora* ripoff. And Google got away with it because they brazenly stole from something that nobody even knew existed.

Remember Google’s new UI style? The black bar at the top? Stolen from diaspora* for Google+.

Also, everyone claims that Google+ invented the concept of “circles”. Actually, Google just ripped off diaspora*'s aspects. (And Friendica had them several months before diaspora* even. So Friendica had them first. Not diaspora*. And Google even less.)

Won’t happen.

Around December 29th, multiple big diaspora* pods shut down. According to one source, diaspora* lost over half of its users within three days. On January 25th, diasp.org, one of the biggest pods, will meet its end.

Also, if anything, Friendica (plus Hubzilla plus Socialhome) will suck the rest of life out of diaspora*. diaspora* users will move there from their own dying pods to stay in contact both with their friends who still hold out on diaspora* and with their friends who have moved on to something that uses ActivityPub. And the former will become fewer and fewer as more and more pods shut down.

This is even fairly easy for (streams) which is a fork of a fork of three forks of a fork (of a fork?) of a fork of Friendica by Friendica’s own creator, eleven years after Friendica. And I wouldn’t even feel bad about it.

That’s because (streams) has only got two public, open-registration instances. If you’re in North America, it’s Rumbly. If you’re in Europe, it’s Nomád (with a German veteran admin who also runs two Hubzilla hubs, who is savvy enough to single-handedly re-write Hubzilla’s entire help system from scratch in both German and English, and who plans to do the same for (streams)).

And it’s because (streams) intentionally keeps itself away from instance-listing websites like Fediverse Observer and FediDB, so being railroaded to any one specific instance is just about the only chance you have to get into (streams).

Granted, it has a learning curve that’s even steeper than Friendica’s. It doesn’t have a UI/UX that looks like $10M of VC. And there’s no way whatsoever to use (streams) with any kind of dedicated, native mobile Fediverse app, especially not its own official iPhone app named “Streams” that looks like $20M of VC.

No. You can’t crosspost to two or more Lemmy communities at once. AFAICS, that’s fully deliberate and intentional by design to keep people from spamming Lemmy with mass-crossposts.

What it fixes is trouble with crossposting to Lemmy, Friendica/Hubzilla/(streams) and Guppe groups. You can’t mention these in any order you like. You always have to begin with one Lemmy community. If a Lemmy community is not mentioned first, it will be ignored, no matter what is mentioned first.

Also, apparently, mentioning Guppe groups before a Friendica group, a Hubzilla forum or a (streams) group doesn’t work either.

Always post in this format:

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@Lemmy_community @Friendica_group/Hubzilla_forum/(streams)_group @Guppe_group (optionally more Guppe groups)
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