Semi-related but I was thinking about this earlier this year, and I was wondering about the feasibility of posting bus cancellations via the fediverse instead of via a bussing company’s website or email.
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2024
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I think updates like that would do well on Mastodon, it's the most popular right now so it has a wider reach / support. Similar to what would have been posted to Twitter before
It definitely seems like a good idea for education services, weather services, local municipal services, and basically all important government institutions to make important announcements and updates via a service they can host themselves or is more distributed, like Mastadon, instead of via Twitter where they have to obey the whims of people like Musk.
I think once groups land in Pixelfed and the new app is released on the official app-stores, which will hopefully both happen this month, it is probably the best option if people are used to IG and Facebook.
I wonder if pixelfed is resource hungry? As mastodon?
It's written in php Laravel, so it should be somewhat more lightweight than Mastodon, but not massively so.
Mastodon also has a bit of an unjustified bad reputation for that... yes for very small instances it is a resource hog, but it scales reasonably well to larger number of users after that initial bump.
Oh I didn't know there was a new app coming out, is the original one being rebuilt?
According to the main developer's mastodon feed, yes.
Frendica
Is friendica appealing for teenagers? does the UX feel modern/polished? (this is non relevant for me, but sadly for teens it is so important)
Wait you know teenagers who use Facebook ?
not really
You wrote in your post the people you wanted to introduce it to is using Instagram and Facebook and now you said here those people are teenagers .
some adults still use fb. I doubt there are students that use fb. they mostly use ig.
It's because you mentioned Facebook, I thought Friendica would be a good like for like.
Ah ok I see... Yes, some adults still use fb but most people use IG...