Re:Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving fr...
by dredmorbius on Friday November 02, 2018 @12:01PM
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Both are federated platforms based on open protocols, capable of being self-hosted.
Feature-wise, Mastodon is a microblogging platform, defaulting to 500 characters per post, and supporting hashtags, images, and video, as well as lists and blocking/muting capabilities.
Diaspora (and the related Friendica and Hubzilla) are social-graph posting platforms, with Markdown-based formatted posts of significant length,[1] organised around Aspects (similar to G+ Circles),[2] and hashtag-based interest seaarch/streams. Images and video supported, multiple Notifications types.
Friendica and Hubzilla add groups and other features, as well as more robust blocking (a distinct weakness of Diaspora).
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Notes:
1. I seem to recall 100k characters mentioned, 16,700 words or so. Novella range. Possibly longer.
2. Google+ apparently took its early design from Diaspora, including its renamed 'Circles' and "Sparks" features.
Feature-wise, Mastodon is a microblogging platform, defaulting to 500 characters per post, and supporting hashtags, images, and video, as well as lists and blocking/muting capabilities.
Diaspora (and the related Friendica and Hubzilla) are social-graph posting platforms, with Markdown-based formatted posts of significant length,[1] organised around Aspects (similar to G+ Circles),[2] and hashtag-based interest seaarch/streams. Images and video supported, multiple Notifications types.
Friendica and Hubzilla add groups and other features, as well as more robust blocking (a distinct weakness of Diaspora).
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Notes:
1. I seem to recall 100k characters mentioned, 16,700 words or so. Novella range. Possibly longer.
2. Google+ apparently took its early design from Diaspora, including its renamed 'Circles' and "Sparks" features.