I just read up on it and it seems good, at least in theory. How does it compare to Lemmy, would you say?

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    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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        @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.

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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.

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        @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, 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.

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          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.

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            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.