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@Provider I miss the freedom of the old Internet. It truly was INTERnet as everything was connected to everything. Geoblocks, censorship, blacklists, etc were almost non-existent. It felt like an open global world where everyone was welcome and everyone was free to decide who they wanted to talk to.

I kept thinking "wow, this is what the future is like" and naively expected the offline world to eventually follow. I guess it was very naive.

@eshep @serenity @f00fc7c8 @rom @anders I wonder as well. Maybe Cron is considered more reliable as it starts new process every few minutes and if it fails for some reason it will be restarted automatically. Daemon requires more configuration.

@eshep @serenity @f00fc7c8 @rom @anders Thanks for the advice to switch to daemon - now it doesn't have delays before sending posts and comments.

Now it works even better :)

@sxan I have different opinion on this but I am not UX specialist.

Surely to just highlight something it is easier to use underscore or similar characters but when you want to have variety of formatting styles in my opinon text tags are easier to remember and use. Yes, more to type but BBCode-enabled solutions usually provide some sort of assist.

Also Markdown tends to conflict with user input more often which is confusing.

@eshep @serenity @f00fc7c8 @rom @anders Thanks, I'll try this and see how it compares with cron!

@eshep @serenity @f00fc7c8 @rom @anders Interesting, I didn't know about daemon. Can you share how you have it configured? I set my server some years ago, I think it didn't have this option back then but I'd like to try.

@petrescatraian @sxan What's wrong with BBCode? It is simpler to learn for non-technical folks.

@eshep @serenity @f00fc7c8 @rom @anders I am not sure it is about PHP but it depends how you see it.

Friendica can be rather resource-intensive, especially for public instance. Some of them feel slow because they are somewhat overloaded. On badly overloaded servers delivery times suffer.

Also mostly static interface of Friendica which I like also means most operations reload the entire page. E.g. when you go to someone's profile it can take the same time (say 8 seconds) on Friendica and Misskey/Pleroma/Mastodon but on the latter you don't see the page redrawn - it stays the same and something spins loading the data. On Friendica you see full page reload. It is perceived slower.

Also in some aspects Friendica is inherently slower by design. E.g. when posting comment on Mastodon it is fired off right away (well, almost), on Friendica it is queued for delivery and the worker runs on interval (usually every 2-5 mins). It isn't a problem but feels more like email or old school forum while other platforms can feel more like instant messaging.

@notizie @petrescatraian @serenity Friendica and Hubzilla are a bit hard to learn. These platforms need better onboarding process. The greatest advantage of Mastodon is that it is pretty familiar and doesn't overwhelm with features.

@serenity It is possible to use content warning and alt text in Friendica posts (not very convenient but it works).

There is lack of other features though - can't create or vote in polls, can't upload video and audio, can't block by domain.