I've figured out I don't use Friendica as much as I'd like because there's just more friction points for me than mastodon or gotosocial. Friendica takes longer to load pages, there are more required pageloads to do certain things than the other server types. It takes a hacky workaround to mute a hashtag which only works in one particular custom timeline (with several pageloads required to do so),.
Anyway, I think I'm gonna try out selfhosting a Streams Repository server and I also wanna check out Bonfire so I'll probably fire up one of them too. If I like one more than Friendica I'll probably shut down this friendica server. That'll let me repurpose the.icosahedron.network as a webpage or something, since I've heard it's not the best idea to run different types of AP servers on the same url?
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in reply to Cryptica😸💖 • • •Sorry to see you go. Friendica instances are few and far between but it also sounds like you don't care if you don't federate with Diaspora, which Mastodon does not. IMHO they both have their quirks, and loading speed doesn't sound like a Friendica-dependent function, but that of the ISP. But what do I know, I've never been a sysop...er...I mean admin.
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in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • •Yeah, I haven't really inerfaced with the diaspora network much at all, so losing the ability to federate doesn't affect my thought process here. Losing the RSS reader capability is a much bigger deal, but the only fedi server types that I know that RSS read natively are Friendica and Hubzilla (Which I really did not care for).
It may be that my VPS is underpowered for a friendica instance. I don't personally run the mastodon instance I'm using for speed comparisions, so I don't know what the specs are on that vps, or even how heavy mastodon and friendica comparitively are on resource-intensiveness.
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