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What are the best fediverse alternative to the big sites on the web? (lemmy.ml)
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I know I've made the jump to Mastodon, and now lemmy. But what are the other sites that I'm missing out on?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 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.