Friendica Social Network (Leipzig)

Christian

4 Wochen her •

Christian
4 Wochen her •

So what are you guys using for Facebook Alternatives (self-hosted, open-source, federated)?

#selfhosted #selfhosting #opensource #linux #federation #mastodon #friendica #diaspora

Jupiter Rowland 4 Wochen her •

@Christian Take a look at Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) in comparison with Mastodon.

Friendica is the oldest one, the biggest one, the most well-known one, the one that's the easiest to get into and the only one with dedicated (Android) mobile apps.

Hubzilla is the second-oldest one and easily the most powerful one, but also the one that's the hardest to get into.

(streams) is the newest and most advanced one, but also next to impossible to find for those who are Googling it or looking for public instances to test it (it only has two).

All three are very different from Mastodon (see the tables behind the link at the top of this comment).

Self-hosting seems fairly easy. All three are built in PHP and don't require much more than a LAMP stack. Also, all three can be installed via YunoHost.

As for diaspora*, forget it. All recommendations for diaspora* come from Mastodon users who only know it from hearsay from other Mastodon users who only know it from hearsay. In reality, it's slowly dying, and even big and important pods with lots of user accounts are shutting down. Also, it doesn't support ActivityPub, it can't connect to Mastodon, and it never will. That's a fully intentional design decision with very good reasoning behind it.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Facebook #FacebookAlternative #diaspora* #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams)