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2023-08-24 20:44:02

Another day, another fantastic #Friendica feature that I found. If you've already been for a while, you can check your feed from a year ago*. While you are in your newsfeed, simply click on the #year you want to check on the Archive pane on the left (keep scrolling to find it), then click on On this day. You'll get all the posts that were sent to your instance exactly one year ago. Isn't it wonderful to walk through your personal memory lane from time to time? 😁
#fediverse #friendica #features #onthisday #OTD #feed #newsfeed
*I guess it depends on how long have you been to a certain Friendica server, not sure if posts are displayed if you moved your account to a different server for less than a year before. I'm also not sure if this depends on a certain plugin, or if it's a baked-in functionality. This functionality is also available only on servers running the develop branch, as of writing. It will become widely available in all servers running 2023.09 or later (once these versions will be released).

2023-08-14 13:54:05

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@newt@stereophonic.space wrote:Ki key
Right, that's something I didn't know. You know why I didn't know about it? Because I didn't have to know in order to use my phone. Nor did you have to know it 100 years ago. Only thing you needed to know was your number, and the number of the person(s) you wanted to call. If I pop out my SIM card today from my current phone and place it in another phone, one that's been just released, I wouldn't have to know all these information either (okay, maybe I should know the carrier, but I wouldn't have to type it manually, just select it from a scrolling list).
Instead, if I pick up a brand new device and want to log in to Matrix, I have to:
install my favourite Matrix client or go to a website to use Element online.
type in my username
type in my password
You currently do not have to do this if you call people on GSM networks.
And given they all use packets and everything is still online:
* Why are carriers still charging separately for making calls and sending messages on their network? Okay, I know some provide unlimited everything, but not all.
* Why do phone manufacturers include separate settings for disabling mobile data and GSM connection (a.k.a. "the plane mode")?
Untill these questions are answered and adressed, people will still think of it as two different things, and use accordingly.

2023-08-14 11:16:22

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 no internet gimmick can beat phone numbers imo. You cannot be connected all the time and online all the time. I know you can make a case for XMPP and OpenID doing the same things as phone numbers, and get some of the latter's drawbacks applied to the former as well (cost, coverage etc.). But the reality is that the majority of the people have gotten used to talk on the phone more than messaging each other. If there's an emergency, you don't send a message over the internet to someone - that person might not even be online. You don't message 911 (or 112 here, over the ocean) if there's a car crash or whatever, you don't send it messages, you don't email them, you call it.
Messaging over the internet is what? A few decades old? While we're able to call people for more than a century.
Most of us surely remember the time when we were sending phisical letters to each other or postcards - that time is really not so far away in history. It is only a decade or two since email got established.
But I do get your point about apps requiring you a phone number. It really was convenient at first, as you were able to use some services without using an extra thing you had to remember (i.e. a password). But nowadays it's gotten intrusive already. I don't want to use my phone number for everything.