diaspora* VS Mastodon

Des gens soit là : https://joinfirefish.org/join/ Soit là ? https://diasporafoundation.org/

What are your thoughts on BDD and Gherkin test scripts? The federated Diaspora* app has a BDD test suite [0], and for the Fediverse people are test-driving if it is applicable for ActivityPub compliance testing [1].

[0] https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/tree/develop/features

[1] https://codeberg.org/helge/fediverse-features

diaspora*

Edit: https://diasporafoundation.org/

Maybe if reddit manages to kill itself, one of the decentralized projects like diaspora will expand.

...to the original project. https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora

You can favor other alternatives for ideological reasons, like Mastodon or Bluesky, but you should know that there is much less exposure at the moment, although it attracts important people in tech.

If you really, absolutely want to continue using Mastodon, support this: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/28554.

If you just want to run a single-user instance on the cheap: forget Mastodon! Takahe [0] does not require one whole server for each user and it has substantial lower TCO. A "small instance" for Mastodon can not be realistically be found for less than $10/month today [1], while I can offer Takahe for $39 per year.

[0] https://jointakahe.org

[1] https://communick.com/takahe

>You go to https://joinmastodon.org/, click on "join" (or pick another server if you are adventurous), fill in your username and email and you're good to go.

And that gives me access to the entire service? Or just bits and pieces of it? And how do I find other services? Asking around?

Decentralized works for motivated parties. It does not work for the masses.

Oh, TIL about https://mastodon.social/ (https://joinmastodon.org/)

Looks like what you describe, doesn't it?

> Social networking that's not for sale.

Interestingly there is some discussion for Mastodon with people asking the limit to be smaller, which raises the question as to the purpose of alt text, and how to properly handle larger text lengths in screen reader programs.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12268

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Mastodon DMs have absolutely no privacy: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18079

For a decentralized protocol doing things right is much more important than doing things fast, it is very difficult (and in a lot of cases impossible) to break backwards compatibility.