I use Mastodon from time to time and i am now trying Friendica.
People say that Friendica is really awesome and can do a lot of things, etc...
and ok it has groups like #Facebook does and other features that i have yet to explore, but i am quite disappointed i must say, most groups are basically dead with 3 users and no posts or very few posts.
On facebook i can find groups about weird things like VCR Fanatics or cool stuff, but here there is nothing ....

Am i missing something here? 🥺

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Ho trovato questo articolo che tratta brevemente i due, certo è un po' vecchietto, ma immagino che renda l'idea. Ci smanetterò ancora sopra.
Anche se, a meno di sbagliarmi, anche su #Mastodon posso interfacciarmi con #BlueSky e altri social federati

Non so, non so particolarmente convinto da questo Friendica.
Sicuramente ha molte più opzioni di Mastodon, ma mi pare tanto primordiale ancora e quando infili tante cose poi alla fine non viene bene niente. 😁

Quanta gente utilizza questo social network?

Blaise Pascal is known for a number of things, but we remember him best for the Pascaline, an early mechanical calculator. [Chris Staecker] got a chance to take a close look at one, which is quite a feat since there were only about 20 made, and today we only know where nine of them wound up.

This Pascaline was lost for many years, and turned up in an antique store, where they thought it was a music box of some kind. The recent owner passed away, and now this machine is going to go up for auction, probably for more than we can afford. While he wasn’t able to handle the antique, he has plenty of knock-offs that were made back when people actually used them, which wasn’t that long ago. One of these is transparent, so you can see the mechanism inside.

The idea is to use the wheels like an old-fashioned phone dial to add counts to an output wheel. A linkage moves the next input wheel every time the current output wheel passes nine. Of course, if you have a multi-digit carry, it might take a little more elbow grease than just flipping the dial one normal position.

The Pascaline could subtract, too, but modern versions use a more efficient method. Pascal was worried about the extra elbow grease required to push the carry, and the Pascaline actually stored energy to drive the carry mechanism. Pretty forward-thinking for someone building the very first mechanical calculator.

This Pascaline was unusual because it was made for surveying and used old French units. If it were made today, for example, it would have inch wheels that would carry a foot when they went past 11.

What a beautiful machine. You’d like to think that if you lived in the 1650s, you’d dream up this machine. But, to be honest, we probably wouldn’t. We can’t say anything about you.

We’ve seen Pascaline machines before, of course. While we love complex mechanical computers, there’s a certain charm to the simple ones, too.

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