Diaspora might be a bit more popular than WT:Social. We know about 29 links to it since March 2021 and only 29 links to WT:Social. 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.
I’d be interested in seeing what they do with https://wt.social/ I don’t feel like it has gained a lot of traction. Perhaps it could be migrated to a Lemmy/Kbin/They’re own AcivityPub. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
Https://wt.social/ that is being made by the creator of Wikipedia, as a Twitter replacement. No ads. Source: 10 months ago
Your headline claims doesn't hold up (pretty sure Ello, wt.social, MeWE and a bunch of others will make the same "content first" claim). Source: 11 months ago
Https://wt.social/ also hits you with a registration wall with no links to show you screenshots or anything at all, except it does at least have the left-hand sidebar text (and there's a similar https://wt.social/about there too). Source: 11 months ago
Where are you thinking of moving to? Some others I've looked at: Https://cohost.org/ - one of the more promising ones I've seen Blue Sky - but fuck dorsey, amirite? Https://twtxt.net - indie twitter clone Https://calckey.org/ federated Https://spacehey.com/ 🙃 Https://pixelfed.social/ (federated but popular as an insta alternative) Https://wt.social/ (from wikipedia, is getting a face lift soon but seems... Source: 11 months 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.
Friendica - Decentralisation - Privacy - Interoperability
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.
PixelFed - PixelFed is a federated image sharing platform, powered by the ActivityPub protocol.