@Blaze And this, kids, is why decentralized services like Bookwyrm are a great idea

@Sunshine Hello, Romanian here:

• Anything made by Kandia dulce such as the ROM chocolate (literally a rum chocolate bar);
• Drinks made by Merlin’s Beverages, like Pop Cola - check out https://merlinsbeverages.com/home
• The Pegas bicycles (sorry, I couldn’t find an English version of the website, but if you go to BICICLETE you will see all their products)
• Dacia (owned by Renault) is a well-known car manufacturer in Europe
• The Csiki Sor beer

Also, if you stumble across any Romanian store, ask them if they got mici meat. They’re basically sausage without the membrane. You fry them on the barbecue and eat them with mustard and optionally with a beer on the side :)

Additionally, you can also cook some sarmale, mămăligă or papanași really easily.

@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

@JupiterRowland Holly hell, why did they shut down?

@alado Oh, wow. I wasn’t expecting this. I just found it funny that the last free space out there was in Russia, haha. Now it all makes sense. If you want, I’ll delete my post.

I do hope more free spaces will appear in Russia and things will cool down around the world!

All the best, take care!

@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

@Fitik So the only chance of Diaspora to survive is for Friendica to grow. Just like it happened with Mastodon back in the day, and I could see anything I wanted.

@Sunshine @Emperor

@Sunshine If you do, let me know. I will add it to my megathread here:

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2167-82af-600d-9ea129892452

@Blaze

@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 joinfriendica.de currently works without invites.

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.

@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?

@petrescatraian@libranet.de Apparently the video is not displayed, rather there is a link to download it, wtf.

Hope you can see it if I post it from my Mastodon account

Edit: maybe with the direct link to the upload…

https://mstdn.ro/system/media_attachments/files/113/760/164/323/825/720/original/547920f6ed0192d8.mp4

@trams_trolleys_streetcars

@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