@ruud I created a megathread, over at https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2167-82af-600d-9ea129892452

There will also be a web version of it coming sometime in the future (when I’ll have more spare time at hand). Feel free to steal any info you might want from it :D

@Sunshine

@Teknevra https://ourspace.lat/

(seems like it’s currently down though)

@RizzRustbolt Very good question. Here’s how to figure it out:
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/adriancinenaticuniverse/images/9/97/90/_degree/_half/_heil.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20230329101954

@not_IO

@Zero22xx No worries! Whatever fits you best! :D I’m happy you found a place around here!

Hope Zuck doesn’t create another streisand with this one, like he did with Pixelfed (or maybe I hope he does, idk)

I’ll have a shot with you too. Or maybe two shots. Or maybe whatever gets me to hospital in coma (jk).

@Zero22xx Friendica is more personal so to say… idk how to put it. It is more like Facebook :D You’ll likely find your way.

And another small thing for me (that can be easily fixed by styles and apps) is no apparent dark mode.

Go to Settings>Display>Custom theme settings, then click the drop-down on appearance (should be the second item).

If you’re using the Vier theme instead of Frio, scroll down to Theme settings and select the drop down next to “set style”.

@Zero22xx It depends. What use case did you have in mind?

@Zero22xx There are multiple Friendica instances. You can check them in the Friendica Directory (in the servers section) or other more global lists of Fediverse servers like the-federation.info, FediDB etc. Friendica has groups too, but besides the !helpers@forum.friendi.ca (or probably even the !fediversenews@venera.social one) they’re pretty much lacking activity (you’re still free to post anyway, there are plenty of them).

If you need some help, you can also post on the former one by creating a regular post and mentioning the group with “!” or “@”. I have also created a megathread with various resources and a small Q&A (it’s actually vice-versa tbh, since the Q&A took the most space on it, but I digress) in order to get yourself started: https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2167-82af-600d-9ea129892452

@maegul

@anticurrent @petrescatraian@libranet.de Fortunately, Friendica is flexible enough. All servers can set a default theme, and much of what people dislike about Friendica can just be fixed by swapping the Frio theme (which is default to many of the servers) with this one. In fact, there’s already a server who did just that: loma.ml

Here’s how it’s local feed looks like right now

@Blaze too many seem hyped about microblogging, though…

@Blaze @morrowind Unpopular opinion: Facebook until around 2016 or so (whenever it added stories for the 1st time) was the best social network in terms of UI and concept. It’s just Zuck that decided to just copy everyone, every single feature, cram everything in a single website and gobble all user data (and now he’s also supporting Trump and free speech). Oh, and the ads. The stupid ads getting you everywhere.

@sith As others said, Friendica is clearly a better alternative to Facebook. It has an interface that took cues from it, groups, pages, a calendar where you can create or join events etc.

@fxomt No worries. Thing is, on a serious note, that it doesn’t federate with Friendica, but rather Friendica federates with it (through diaspora’s own protocol). That means that you can follow Mastodon accounts along with diaspora accounts on Friendica, but you cannot follow Mastodon accounts on Diaspora (nor vice-versa). So if you want to keep tabs with the world, Friendica is the better option.

@fxomt

And as for diaspora, it uses its own protocol, so i’m not sure if it can federate with software that uses activitypub.

It does federate. With Friendica, lol (because it also uses their protocol though).

@sith

@autonomoususer and that fact justifies vitriol and behaviors like this in which way?

@macattack yeah, but people (on Mastodon at least) are very opinionated so to say, and they will go out of their way to call people out for scraping their data without consent. They even go ahead and send you death threats, doxx you or even upload CSAM on your platform just to take it down.

@Teknevra

@superkret You mean who is going to support who in the runoff? Well, by the looks of it, it looks like all the democratic forces will either back Ciolacu or nobody. Simion and Georgescu will likely back each other, whoever comes in second, so it will basically look like Germany, sure.

If Lasconi gets in the 2nd round instead, I’m expecting most of the other candidates to back her. Including the whole right (democratic or far-right - just to spite PSD, but there can be surprises as well).

Just to get an idea, PSD never really lost a single election in its entire history. In the last (soon to be) 35 years since the 1989 Revolution, it spent the biggest time in power.

PSD is the direct descendant of the former Communist Party, so it has a huge apparatus all over the country. There’s basically not a single village where PSD is not present. This is why in the 2000 elections it got a landslide result against far-right Corneliu Vadim Tudor. And this scenario might happen again.

@superkret

So what happens in the second? Does every citizen go vote again between the 2 front-runners?

Yes. If the first candidate doesn’t get a majority of the votes (which is likely to happen), there is a runoff between the first two.

If the “lower” candidates all announced support for one of the 3 at the top, what would the likely percentage be then?

I don’t think that would happen, as the ballots just closed, but I don’t think that could have happened either. It is also a risky thing to do altogether. One of the candidates announced right in the middle of the election debate that he would pull out of the race, but I saw a jump for the Liberals instead. There are no less than 13 (yes, lucky number) candidates on the list, so things can get pretty volatile.

@theangriestbird A bit anxious tbh, I did not expect Călin Georgescu to take up these many votes. However, the political offer as a whole is pretty poor. USR, while being a reformist party and with people with good intention, are pretty bad at communicating, and Lasconi makes no exception. Having her run against PSD and the various far-right offers makes it the only agreeable option, at least for me.

Having watched this documentary about Iohannis and his last 10 years as a president makes me worry that if Lasconi and USR are not getting a majority of the seats in the parliament at the next elections, or are at least not able to form a coalition with other democratic forces (right-wing or not), we might be witnessing the last free (at least to a certain extent) elections in this country. That is, if these won’t be frauded either until the end of the count.