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Pixelfed soon. We have a domain registered and I've started provisioning the infra.
Friendica isn't on our todo list yet, not sure if it will be or not since none of us are regular Facebook users.
Edit: Enough people are asking about friendica that I promise to investigate more after pixelfed is up.
I posted about Fedecan and the fediverse on Facebook a few weeks ago. Might just be my friend group, but a lot of people seemed interested in ditching Facebook in the wake of all the Trump stuff.
I know it takes time and resources, but I would love to see you hosting an instance for each alternative to the major platforms.
Anyway, great work! I appreciate you. Keep it up! :)
fwiw I would join a friendica instance in a heartbeat and lobby for people I know on fb to sign up.
A Friendica server would be amazing!
I feel like the similarity to Facebook is way overstated. I wonder how much that association hurts Friendica since even people who use FB a lot think it's super lame. It's the most similar to FB compared to others but it's really the Swiss Army knife of the Fediverse -- and the most powerful tool for accessing it. Coming from Mastodon, and even the Misskey forks, it's crazy what you can do with Friendica.
A Canadian server would be incredible but it'd also be such a benefit to Friendica to have more servers run by people who know what they're doing.
I promise to take a look a Friendica after we get Pixelfed up =)