Jerry
I'm not trying to sell it. It is what it is. I'm just providing information about Friendica for those interested. I know I was always curious about it.
Nope. Locked inside a VPC with only one VPS allowed to communicate with it.
I'm glad this got sorted. I know Jeena. I was stunned and confused to hear he was banned for spam. That itself sounds like satire.
BTW, there is a community that you can join from Lemmy, Piefed, or MBIN, that supports my-place.social: https://feddit.online/c/my_place_social
Friendica doesn't use the "!" notation. This is only a notation that a Lemmy, Piefed, or MBIN instance understands.
Friendica instead uses the familiar account notation used by Mastodon, Sharkey, Misskey, etc. It sees the Lemmy community as a user that is also a group.
If you want to follow, for example, the "asklemmy" community at lemmy.world, in the "Add New Contact" box, just enter : asklemmy@lemmy.world, and then click the "Connect" button, and it will find it, and you can follow it like any other account. Friendica will recognize it as a "Group", as opposed to an individual account, and it should show up in your Groups section.
Let me know if this works.
In smaller instances, you can easily reach the Admin and are much more likely to get a response. Also, the moderation is likely done completely by the Admin and not by a less-invested person who might be enjoying the power and control of being a moderator.
From my experience, about 80% of opened reports are self-resolvable and don't need Admins or moderators and is just someone seeing the world through a biased lens, so everything they don't believe becomes misinformation, and they start opening reports for vengeance. When many of these keep coming, it wears Admins and moderators down, and they are more likely to just ban than respond. This fatigue is not something a small instance Admin experiences. They give more thought to the situation.
I was banned on mastodon . social because someone who disagreed with me perfectly crafted a complaint (they apparently had a lot of experience doing this) that took what I wrote out of context to seem like I was saying something else, and .social banned me instantly and denied the appeal. The claim was total fiction. They didn't care. They had a stack of reports to get through. I had no hope of reaching an Admin.
I never used a large instance again.
Just something, maybe, to think about.
You're absolutely right.
A worse example, pharmacy.amazon.com only uses a 4-digit passcode to log in, and it's a pharmacy site!
It added two extensions to the sidebar. No idea why they were added. And I can't see a way to remove them or add more.
It's a good question and something they ought to support.
Their official account in the Fediverse is @protonprivacy@mastodon.social. You might want to try DMing them.
I use Firefox. I don't have this issue. FWIW.