Based on our record, Diaspora should be more popular than Manyverse. It has been mentiond 29 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
There’s Briar: https://briarproject.org/ and Manyverse which uses the Scuttlebutt Protocol: https://manyver.se which are close but not perfect. Source: 12 months ago
Manyverse is cross-platform and it's the main desktop app nowadays: https://manyver.se The Scuttlebutt.nz website hasn't been kept up-to-date. SSB's development is also decentralized, so this doesn't mean that everything moves forward in unison, so depending on who you ask, Scuttlebutt.nz is not the official frontpage. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Manyverse (version 0.2210.3-beta-fdroid): A social network off the grid. Source: over 1 year ago
This looks pretty interesting. Do you know how it is different from similar systems that use the SSB protocol, like Manyverse for example? Source: over 1 year ago
I really look forward to interfaces that let me use my own index of data from my network. Manyverse[1] and Iris[2] are good examples of apps that will enable this more in the future. I just want to search “harry potter” and see everything my friends have written about it. If I follow some institutions or encyclopedias, I should also see what they write about it. And I should be able to choose which... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
> whatever that Ruby-based alternative was, that Zuck famously invested in, but to which I have zero memory of the name right now I think you're referring to Diaspora. https://diasporafoundation.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network). - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
Maybe if reddit manages to kill itself, one of the decentralized projects like diaspora will expand. Source: about 1 year ago
I remember making similar comments about Diaspora vs Facebook a decade ago, but people are... lazy. Yeah, let's go with lazy. Source: over 1 year ago
To be fair, its not Mastodon, its the #Fediverse. Mastodon is arguably the least rich platfrom on the 'verse. IMHO Friendica is where its at, and you can still communicate with all the twitter refugees on Mastodon, as well as meater content on services likeDiaspora*, not to mention full integration with Lemmy (which works fairly similar to Reddit) while Masto you can see lemmy posts and replies without having to... Source: over 1 year ago
Several upstarts have tried to capture what you're talking about. Diaspora was an early entry, the Fediverse is another that seems to be gaining momentum in a way Diaspora never did. Source: over 1 year ago
Mastodon - Mastodon is a decentralized, open source social network. This is just one part of the network, run by the main developers of the project It is not focused on any particular niche interest - everyone is welcome!
Gab - Gab is an ad-free social network dedicated to free speech.
Facebook - Connect with friends, family and other people you know. Share photos and videos, send messages and get updates.
PixelFed - PixelFed is a federated image sharing platform, powered by the ActivityPub protocol.
X (Twitter) - Connect with your friends and other fascinating people. Get in-the-moment updates on the things that interest you. And watch events unfold, in real time, from every angle.
Friendica - Decentralisation - Privacy - Interoperability