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@Martin Rundkvist I've written an article with several feature comparison tables between- Mastodon
- Friendica
- Hubzilla (rebuilt from a fork of a fork of Friendica by Friendica's creator)
- (streams) (fork of a fork of three forks of a fork (of a fork?) of Hubzilla by the same creator)
- Forte (fork of the streams repository by still the same creator
https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/item/0a75de76-eb27-4149-b708-f20b2f79d392
A few goodies:- Mastodon:
500 characters; requires source code modifications to get more
Friendica:
16,777,215 characters - Friendica:
Can render and create the full gamut of HTML text formatting
Mastodon:
Can only create plain text; can only render a small subset of HTML text formatting - Friendica:
Have as many images pro post as you want
Embed them within the text
Mastodon:
Limited to 4 images
Images can only be file attachments - Friendica:
Shows you all content in the Fediverse just like the author intended it
Mastodon:
"Sanitises" away half the formatting, all embedded images and all images except for the first four, just for the sake of purist microblogging - Mastodon:
Timeline consists of single messages with no context
Friendica:
Timeline consists of complete conversations, all the way back to the start post, with all branches (ignores and blocks notwithstanding) - Mastodon:
Conversations consist of toots and more toots, loosely strung together with mentions
Replies only reach those who are visibly mentioned
Friendica:
Conversations consist of exactly one post and otherwise comments
Replies go from the replier to the thread starter and from there to all participants in the conversation without having to mention anyone - Friendica:
Has groups built in (groups are accounts with special settings)
Mastodon:
Has no support for groups whatsoever, much less its own groups
Most Mastodon users don't even know that the Fediverse has groups - Friendica:
Lets you federate with the whole Fediverse
Lets you federate with diaspora*
Lets you include and remote-control a Bluesky account
At least used to be able to do the same with a Tumblr account or a Twitter account
Lets you crosspost to Dreamwidth, Libertree, LiveJournal and XML-RPC-based blogs like WordPress
Mastodon:
Just barely so federates with the Fediverse
Tries to make everything that isn't Mastodon look broken
Would love for the Fediverse to be only Mastodon - Mastodon:
Makes the whole Fediverse look like Mastodon
Friendica:
Shows you which server software a message came from
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta #Mastodon #Friendica -
CW: Account getting away with way subpar alt-texts only because it's too niche with too few followers; CW: long (over 1,700 characters), Fediverse meta, alt-text meta, image description meta, character limit meta
I've just discovered a certain Mastodon account that seems to automatically post images of Second Life avatars. It can be lucky to only have eight followers, one of them being a search engine, the others being Second Life users.
If it had more follower, it would certainly already have met the wrath of the wider Mastodon community, especially the Mastodon HOA, for breaking Mastodon's unwritten rules.
And I'm not even talking about nigh-nudity in some of the images with no warning, no image flagging, no hashtag. I'm talking about the alt-texts that are vastly below Mastodon's requirements and quality standards for alt-texts.
Granted, all things considered, the requirements for good image descriptions by Mastodon's standards have to be extremely hard and tedious to meet, at least by my personal estimations. In fact, they have to be impossible to meet on Mastodon itself due to its tiny character limit, and if this account was somewhere where it could meet these requirements, it'd probably be blocked by loads of Mastodon accounts for its excessively long posts due to the long image descriptions.
But if more Mastodon users knew it right now, it'd probably be blocked by many more Mastodon accounts than follow it.
If you post from virtual worlds into the Fediverse, you simply cannot win in the long run. You'll lose either way.
#SecondLife #Metaverse #VirtualWorld #VirtualWorlds #Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta #Mastodon #MastodonHOA #MastodonCulture