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What can you do with Diaspora? It looks like you can post text and images, share it with people, and they can comment on it and like it. What else? I mean, the

What can you do with Diaspora? It looks like you can post text and images, share it with people, and they can comment on it and like it. What else? I mean, they've been building it for nearly 8 years now, so presumably there's a tonne more you can do with it? I don't know if it's just hidden, but is there really still no events functionality?

nix0n 9y ago
Friendica has events, and can federate with Diaspora.
jimbosis 9y ago
As far as I know, Diaspora still does not have events functionality. Two other federated, free, and open social networking platforms that do have events functionality are Friendica and Hubzilla. https://friendi.ca/ https://friendi.ca/ https://project.hubzilla.org/page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project https://project.hubzilla.org/page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project I have not looked too much into Hubzilla, but I set up a test Friendica account and was very impressed! My first thought was, "this is so much better than Diaspora. How did Diaspora get all the news coverage?" They were both developed by Mike Macgirvin, a former Facebook employee who left in early 2010 because he was "...was increasingly concerned about the directions they were taking related to personal privacy." That quote is from a very interesting interview with him about federated social networking at: https://medium.com/we-distribute/got-zot-mike-macgirvin-45287601ff19 https://medium.com/we-distribute/got-zot-mike-macgirvin-4528... I discovered all this through the "Fediverse.party" website: https://fediverse.party/ https://fediverse.party/ HN Discussion about Fediverse.party: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16667050 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16667050 Edit: formatting, typos, clarity