I just read up on it and it seems good, at least in theory. How does it compare to Lemmy, would you say?
Diaspora used to be great! The problem is that, as a project, it’s been kind of rudderless in direction for a long time. It’s been in maintenance mode for nearly a decade, where contributions are largely just random fixes and minor improvements sent in by volunteers.
Unfortunately, the old guard is very against adopting ActivityPub in any way, shape, or form. Historically, the project has always kind of put the expectation of federation compatibility on other platforms, rather than doing any work to collaborate with existing platforms or adopt existing standards. They can’t even communicate with most of the Fediverse these days.
The project’s future is kind of uncertain. They finally got a developer API put together, and work is happening on Account Migration. But, the platform is slowed down by years of cruft and technical debt.
OK so it seems Diaspora* had great potential but sort of dribbled off into a void. Does anyone know of any similar platforms that are good? I’m trying to to find a few decent “social media” things that are better than Facebook, X, etc and it’s incredibly hard to find anything worth signing up to.
I personally really like Firefish, though it definitely needs better client apps that can support all of its features. https://joinfirefish.org/
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Yeah, I love Friendica. The UI definitely needs more love, but it’s really come a long way. The team and dev community is also very welcoming, lots of great people there.
@spitz@lemmy.ml … continuing the other interesting fedi platforms thread.
plus one for firefish (and related platforms, namely misskey and iceshrimp (?, a recent fork of firefish)) … basically the answer to what if microblogging were richer, more interesting, more featurefull, more fun, nicer looking, not so much *micro-*blogging and not at all concerned with being a twitter clone.
Akkoma (and its predecessor/older fork pleroma) are maybe worth checking out, though they’re more popular amongst self-hosters and for good technical reasons it seems.
Friendica is the fedi alternative to facebook. I generally don’t hear good things about it, but it’s still actively developed and seems to have an active and dedicated (albeit small) user base. Hubzilla/Streams (developed by the same founding dev of friendica) are in a similar position AFAICT.
In case you didn’t know … kbin is a sort of alternative to lemmy, where it has very very similar community functionality but with some features that integrate more with the microblogging platforms.
Otherwise, you’ve got Pixelfed, an instagram-like alternative, popular and actively developed, and the sort of blogging tools/alternatives I don’t too know much about: writefreely,
micro.blog, the fediverse wordpress plugin, andmicroblog.pub(niche self-hosting platform).The Fedidb Software page is probably a good guide to what’s out there and what people are using.
Cheers. I’ve tried kbin and it made no sense to me at all. Just signed up to firefish so I’ll see how it goes.
I’ve tried kbin and it made no sense to me at all.
Yea … I like what they’re trying to do, but at the moment, the complexity / value ratio is problematically low I’d guess for most people. It’s a very young platform however and seems to have done well at maintaining performance with user growth so worth keeping an eye on.
To me it feels it never lifted off since release in 2012.
That was my impression too. I’ve already moved on.
