Mastodon vs Diaspora?

Posted Dec 15, 2017 8:57 UTC (Fri) by Herve5 (guest, #115399)
Parent article: Federation in social networks

This is a very silly intervention, for I am very uneducated on this question.
At this moment I am on Diaspora, of which I sort of understood they federate, well, many other Diaspora servers but possibly not with a standard interface.
Is my understanding correct, which then would mean Mastodon is preferable?
TIA!

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Mastodon vs Diaspora?

Posted Dec 21, 2017 11:11 UTC (Thu) by stty (guest, #120249) [Link] (1 responses)

Diaspora protocol is different from Mastodon protocol, so they cannot communicate with each other (as of today).

Anyways, Diaspora started as a decentralized Facebook and Mastodon as decentralized Twitter -- so both of them complement each other nicely.

Mastodon vs Diaspora?

Posted Dec 30, 2017 9:15 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

I see no fundamental difference between Facebook, google+, Twitter, linked-in, identi.ca, mastodon - you have a profile with updates others can subscribe to. Facebook friends might be reciprocal but you can follow people too, it makes no difference. Same with a text limit or not... am I missing something?

And yes, i think it would be great to connect mastodon and diaspora.