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[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 19.06.2014 um 22:12 schrieb wonderphone at posteo.de:

> Hi all,
> 
> A question to the people on the list:
> 
> Do you use or like Facebook?

No.

> Are your interested in an alternative?

The question is what Facebook or similar tools are really good for...

I am "old school" and talk to people directly (through mail) and even sometimes face-to-face, if I think they should know something. For this purpose, the old fashioned communication tools like e-mail, forums, web pages, wikis, blogs are good enough and keep me in (better)control over what I tell whom…

And, I don't feel that I am the center of the world, that I need thousands of "friends" I don't even know…

So if some friend isn't talking to me any more and just referring to his/her Facebook or Twitter entries and asks me to follow, I don't regard that person as being important for my life any more if they are not willing to communicate with me directly... Fortunately that does not happen often with my friends.

> Has anybody experience in using Friendica?

Only that I started to install it: http://friendica.openphoenux.org but failed to find time to complete the configuration. Obviously it isn't important at all :)

> Or do you think it is not so important?

In summary it is a discussion of how to connect members of this community who share some interests and values and knowledge.

Well, the community currently only has this e-mail list, some web pages (wiki) and a "Stammtisch" in Munich. And projects. Basically this could be enough - if used intensively. But a Forum interface would be nice IMHO (and was discussed before - at least in the form of a Forum-like interface to this mailing list).

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> Am 11.06.2014 12:30 schrieb Josua Mayer:
>> What I dont know though, is how much friendica would be used by the
>> people currently watching this mailinglist, if people would use it on a
>> daily basis to also do their regular facebook connections(which I think
>> is possible), or if it is just a silent, slightly dusty platform number
>> 3 or 4(after mail, twitter, facebook, whoknowswhat).

Yes, that is likeley to happen.

Just my 2ct,
Nikolaus