I haven’t used Diaspora yet. I have heard people say that its not really good and Friendica is better, which I also have never tried. Whats your experience with these platforms?

    • the_tech_beastOP
      1·
      4 years ago

      Hmm… I did not know that. I though Diaspora supported the activity pub protocol natively. I did check the fediverse party website. Really cool!. Thanks

    • the_tech_beastOP
      2·
      4 years ago

      None of my friends use these platforms. They like to use Insta, FB, etc. A lot of people here said friendica is better, so I will give it a try.

  • wiki_me
    5·
    4 years ago

    I am using friendica, it is working fairly well, diaspora does seem like it is shrinking in usage. while other platforms (such as friendica) seem to be growing.

    • the_tech_beastOP
      1·
      4 years ago

      Thanks for replying. I am more attracted towards Friendica, so I will give it a try

        • Tmpod
          51·
          4 years ago

          I believe this idea is wrong. The definition of the a fediverse (according to Wikipedia) is

          "an ensemble of federated (i.e. interconnected) servers that are used for web publishing (i.e. social networking, microblogging, blogging, or websites) and file hosting, but which, while independently hosted, can communicate with each other. " 1

          Yes, a fediverse.
          Matrix chats can’t understand Mastodon, Mastodon can’t understand Matrix chats, therefore they cannot exist in the same fediverse. Matrix chats can understand Cactus comments and vice versa, they speak the same language (the Matrix protocol), so they coexist in the Matrix fediverse. Same thing can be said about the Diaspora protocol.

          It just so happens that ActivityPub is a W3C backed protocol and the most popular for social media, so people refer to its fediverse as “The” fediverse.
          I agree there ought to be a name change (call it ActivityPub Fediverse or something along those lines), but I can’t agree that Matrix and Diaspora are part of it.

          Edit: Add Wikipedia page reference.

            • Tmpod
              2·
              4 years ago

              I see your point yeah. I guess we should call Fediverse to the collective of all federated software, which is then subdevided into protocol-based networks, where services can interoperate.

            • TheConquestOfBed
              1·
              4 years ago

              It seems like most activitypub apps have a goal of connecting with masto for visibility, but a lot don’t get that far because of development time.