When I last looked at Diaspora (many years ago,) it came across as an open source social network that you could clone and run yourself, and then there was a net

When I last looked at Diaspora (many years ago,) it came across as an open source social network that you could clone and run yourself, and then there was a network of networks. So, you could run the Diaspora code on your own server and then your server was part of the network. If someone has a better answer than me, please upvote them. It's been years... In this case, one primary difference is that a lot of Scuttlebut logic runs in the client that you install on your computer. You just can't point a browser at someone's server running Scuttlebut Edit: (The difference is kind of like downloading a file in a browser vs downloading a file with a Bittorrent client.)