Playing around with #diaspora has made me ponder the difference in use case between it and #Mastodon. I like both, and they can federated with one another, but other than UI they don't seem particularly different. Once you get past the paint job, are they really different enough to use both?

Oh, and I guess if you're interested in following me, my #diaspora account is ink_slinger@diasp.org

Played around with #diaspora this morning, since Moosetodon was down for a bit. I like it more than #Friendica; it technically has fewer features, but it does what I need it to and I like the UI a little more. Plus, my time on Friendica showed that it doesn't work super smoothly with diaspora, despite the two federating with one another.

Since diaspora has more users, it makes sense to use it myself and enjoy full federation and better cross-pod interaction than I was getting with Friendica.

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It’s been wonderful to see so many new members joining our community over the past few days. <3

You might already have noticed that diaspora* is missing some features that you’d really like to use.

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The main issue that slows the pace of development is simply developer time. To increase developer time and so increase the speed of development, the project needs more developers!

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It seems to me that (many) people would like to present substantially different selves to people in different parts of their lives, not just different subsets of their posts (though that's helpful, and it's nice that #diaspora foregrounds that feature).

But I'm thinking eg trans people who are not out full time might want different names and avatars to be seen by different aspects, etc.

It looks to me that #Diaspora aspects work basically like G+ circles, is that correct?

That is to say, you have a singular profile, but you post to particular aspects to control whomst sees particular posts. And you can filter your timeline by aspect.

When someone adds you to one of their aspects, they only get your public posts, unless you add them to an aspect.

But your aspects are basically one identity, and your control over sharing profile info is basically on/off. Right?

@celesteh I don't even know what pod my old #diaspora account is on. I doubt I could recover it if I wanted to. But I have recently created a #Friendica account. I don't think it'll realistically replace Facebook, since it will likely never have my network of IRL friends, but maybe that's OK. If it helps me use FB less, that could be enough (and, really, maybe I don't need FB at all).

Could also be #Friendica or #Hubzilla, but #Diaspora has always appeared to be the most popular of the three.

Will the reaction to Facebook/Cambridge Analytica increase the popularity of #Diaspora? Because I'd be OK with that. I mean, it certainly won't kill Facebook anymore than Twitter's many blunders haven't killed Facebook, but if it could become semi-popular/cool like Mastodon, that'd be rad.