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.
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There are several macroblog platforms in the Fediverse. My personal favourite is #Friendica. It’s certainly not the most intuitive platform. But it works extremely well and has the most connectivity (next to Hubzilla).
In addition to AP, Diaspora and a number of other older Fedi protocols, I’m connected to Tumblr & Bluesky here and can interact directly with users there.
The UI got stuck sometime in the middle of 2015. More front-end developers are needed to remedy this shortcoming.
Firefish, on the other hand, is super modern but feels a bit sluggish (for my taste). Alongside Friendica, it’s actually a great platform, also because both use RSS and Markdown, a markup language that’s great for creating structured content.
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.
@[email protected] … 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, and microblog.pub (niche self-hosting platform).
The Fedidb Software page is probably a good guide to what’s out there and what people are using.
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.
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/
@deadsuperhero @spitz
There are several macroblog platforms in the Fediverse. My personal favourite is #Friendica. It’s certainly not the most intuitive platform. But it works extremely well and has the most connectivity (next to Hubzilla).
In addition to AP, Diaspora and a number of other older Fedi protocols, I’m connected to Tumblr & Bluesky here and can interact directly with users there.
The UI got stuck sometime in the middle of 2015. More front-end developers are needed to remedy this shortcoming.
Firefish, on the other hand, is super modern but feels a bit sluggish (for my taste). Alongside Friendica, it’s actually a great platform, also because both use RSS and Markdown, a markup language that’s great for creating structured content.
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.
@[email protected] … 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.
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.