Different Platforms, Different Users, Different Purposes, Different Goals
Until I ventured off into the wider world of the #Fediverse, I wrongly assumed that they all have the same goal but just different ways of getting there.
After messing with #Mastodon a bit and finding that even with #ActivityPub in common with #Hubzilla and #Friendica, posts shared between these platforms get mixed up, misdirected, or disappear into the ether.
Seeking some insight, I found this post in the Diaspora Discourse forum and found a gem in the discussion which puts my own thoughts into better words than I could express. Kudos to Dennis Schubert, one of Diaspora's developers for this clarification. He writes:
Friendica is a nice project, and has many friends and users. That’s cool. Unfortunately, it’s also the one project where I constantly see less technical users being completely confused, up to a point where they go back to Facebook because that’s easier (or, in rare cases, they go back to diaspora*, because as it turns out, diaspora* is a lot more stable and usable).Mastodon, Friendica, and diaspora* are very different projects, and I would not say either one is “better”. Mastodon had perfect timing and is catering a lot to the nerds who want something that feels like twitter but is not. Friendica caters a lot to the small group of people who want a tool that “can do everything” and are willing to spend weeks with learning Friendica. diaspora* caters to people who don’t want to spend weeks on learning how things work, and people who appreciate a simpler UX and are fine with the reduced set of features.
BINGO!
Different "target audiences," I guess one might say. Using Mr. Schubert's description definitively, I can surely put myself and most of my friends into that latter category. I love my #diaspora and and am sticking with it. If time and money permit, I'd love to run my own instance some day.
Let's talk about ActivityPub
I think there is literally no good point against implementing ActivityPub other than having no power to implement that (but we could start a fundraising to fund the development of AP implementation).diaspora* Discourse
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