A working mobile app
Here it is. Soon the 0.4 release will be both on F-Droid and Playstore.
github.com/LiveFastEatTrashRac…
On Play Store it is only for beta testers. If you want to try it and contribute to beta testing...
- join this group with the same account you are using on Google Play;
- use this invitation link to become a tester and install the app.
By the way, anyone who wants to participate in the beta testing of Raccon for Lemmy can do so here:
- join this group with the same account you’ll be using on the Play store;
- become a tester using this invitation link;
- download the app from here.
Simplify user sign up
It is not easy, but a simplification process has costs that can only be justified by an increase in the audience. Today, despite Friendica being the most powerful and versatile software in the Fediverse, there are just over 2000 active users!
Clean up of basic functionalities
There are frontends for Mastodon that can simplify the use of Friendica, but with those frontends unfortunately you lose the distinctive functions that make Friendica exceptional. At the moment the easiest way to use Friendica is through the Raccoon app which however still lacks all the management of the hard settings of the account.
What should be renewed is the Friendica interface which at the moment is cumbersome, but volunteer developers who want to contribute are needed
Add expected functionalities
The only feature that Friendica lacks is poll voting. Otherwise Friendica has everything that other software in the Fediverse have and has things that no one else has. There is no point in asking for more features. The only thing that makes sense is to improve the interface.
I definitely think there is value in enabling people to have a page on the internet that is “them”, that people can add and keep up with their life. That is the value that facebook provides, but the existing fediverse doesn’t really have such capabilities right now.
Facebook pages are no longer an added value. Today the only added value for Facebook are Facebook Groups, distributed throughout the world: local groups, thematic groups, political groups. Take away Groups from Facebook and that platform no longer has any value!
Friendica is today the only software that allows you to manage social groups in an excellent way (Friendica groups are Activitypub groups, exactly like Lemmy Communities!), but unfortunately the visualization of groups in Friendica is still not up to the task.
I totally agree with you @Kichae , but in a way I also agree with @korendian , because having the choice between multiple servers is FUNDAMENTAL for the Fediverse to be truly free, but it is unquestionably a great difficulty for the typical user who no longer has time to think and choose: time has been taken away from him!
In my opinion, the best solution is to maintain this immense wealth constituted by federated servers, but to start introducing customized Apps from instance administrators that are installed and that are already set up to automatically register the user.
This is the same strategy adopted by bigtech, but also by the staff of Mastodon Social: apps are a terrible dictatorship, but today all consumer traffic travels through apps