What are the best fediverse alternative to the big sites on the web?

I know I've made the jump to Mastodon, and now lemmy. But what are the other sites that I'm missing out on?

MyopicTopic 8 points 3 years ago

Diaspora* is one that's been around for yeeeeears. A federated Facebook basically. I always wished it'd take off since I do like the idea of having a personal page for very close friends and my network but it is much harder to take off because, while reddit and other sites have tech-minded folks willing to learn and migrate, very few people have an entire extended friend group looking to figure out what a decentralized federated Facebook would entail.

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deadsuperhero 8 points 3 years ago

The sad truth is that Diaspora pretty much refuses to federate with anything other than itself. Some projects have managed to reverse engineer the protocol, but you'd honestly have more luck with Friendica or Hubzilla. Even then, neither of those things are perfectly analogous to Facebook.

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themadcodger 1 point 3 years ago

Do they give a reason why they won't?

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strypey 1 point 3 years ago

@MyopicTopic
> very few people have an entire extended friend group looking to figure out what a decentralized federated Facebook would entail

Indeed. It's a real swiss army knife of a platform, hard to even spec out a replacement. I had a go at that here a few years ago:

https://web.archive.org/...

I'm sure I wrote out a more developed summary of this as a blog post, but I can't find it right now.

@DaisyLee @deadsuperhero