hometown
A supported fork of Mastodon that provides local posting and a wider range of content types. (by hometown-fork)
diaspora*
A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network. (by diaspora)
| hometown | diaspora* | |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | 89 | |
| 724 | 13,346 | |
| 0.1% | 0.1% | |
| 0.0 | 7.9 | |
| about 2 months ago | 28 days ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
hometown
Posts with mentions or reviews of hometown.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-06.
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What's the best way to host an entirely private mastodon server only for myself?
You could try hometown as an alienating server? https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown
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Is there a way to one-way federate with a Mastodon server? I want to set up a server where users can interact with the rest of the fediverse, but all local posts are only visible to users of the instance
What I'd recommend is that you ask about this on the Hometown github repo (https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown). Open an issue to put in a feature asking for admins to have the ability to restrict all users' posts to local only. I have no idea if Darius, the guy who maintains hometown, will be into the idea, but it can't hurt to ask.
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Mastodon needs something between Local and Federated
I have a friend who is advocating for something called Neighborhoods. It's not exactly what you're talking about, but similar. https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/issues/1222
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Does tooting Unlisted mean that only other users on your instance can see it?
Hometown is a fork of Mastodon that adds "local only" visibility, which is what you're describing. I hope that Mastodon eventually adopts it because it's extremely useful on smaller, focused instances.
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Bingo card for new #TwitterMigration influx
Hometown - Mastodon Branch
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Hometown v "regular" Mastodon
Hometown has two themes (aside from the basic ones that come with Mastodon): fairy-floss and macaron. See here for more info on those themes. I assume one of these two themes is what you are referring to.
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Lists [Twitter -> Mastodon] (or de-cluttering Home)
It sounds like what you want is Exclusive Lists, a feature from the Hometown fork of Mastodon, which allows you to define certain lists as "exclusive" meaning that when you add someone to that list, they no longer show up on your Home timeline.
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Best Fork with Groups or Local-Only Posts?
Hometown
- Hometown: A light weight fork of Mastodon
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Scaling Mastodon in the Face of an Exodus
"By our best understanding, our major changes are not wanted by the Mastodon project, hence maintaining this fork instead of trying to commit the changes to Mastodon."
https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown#readme
diaspora*
Posts with mentions or reviews of diaspora*.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-09.
- Diaspora is a decentralized, federated alternative to Facebook that anyone can join and contribute to
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La fin de facebook?
Des gens soit là : https://joinfirefish.org/join/ Soit là ? https://diasporafoundation.org/
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How to add documentation to your product life cycle
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
- We need a Facebook groups style decentralized alternative. Does one exist?
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Test 4
diaspora*
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June 30th: The Reddit APIpocalypse -- What To Do
Edit: https://diasporafoundation.org/
- Mastodon provides the highest (over 12%) engagement under posts
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Imgur Is About to Wipe a Ton of Porn From the Internet
Maybe if reddit manages to kill itself, one of the decentralized projects like diaspora will expand.
- App Design
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Elon Musk drove more than a million people to Mastodon – but many aren’t sticking around: More than 130,000 people were joining the new independent social media network a day in November. So why hasn’t it taken off?
...to the original project. https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora
What are some alternatives?
When comparing hometown and diaspora* you can also consider the following projects:
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
gotosocial - Fast, fun, small ActivityPub server.
Friendica - Friendica Communications Platform
Misskey - 🌎 An interplanetary microblogging platform 🚀
Hubzilla
Tusky - An Android client for the microblogging server Mastodon
HumHub - HumHub is an Open Source Enterprise Social Network. Easy to install, intuitive to use and extendable with countless freely available modules.
Socialhome - A federated social home
GNU social - GNU social is social communication software for both public and private communications.
mastodon-android - Official Android app for Mastodon
Discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.