Mastodon/Pleroma looks to be for broadcast, what would be the best options for sharing content with friends/groups - I’m assuming without knowing better Diaspora or Frendica?

  • Ada
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    11 year ago

    CalcKey (a misskey fork) has local only posting, channels, groups, chat (and group chat) and a “Drive” feature that lets you store and share files

    I haven’t used Diaspora or Friendica though, so I have no point of comparison

  • @sproid@lemmy.ml
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    11 year ago

    According to my search Friendica is the best one for family/groups according to the interactions features compared to the other ones. But the downside/irony is that it can be less user friendly than the others ones IMO. Check for yourself to help you decide. Diaspora is a close second place.

  • @_ed@sopuli.xyzOP
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    11 year ago

    Awesome - thanks for all the feedback. Looks like I have a bit of testing ahead of me.

    • smallcircles
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      11 year ago

      GoToSocial also supports local-only posting. And it is much, much lighter-weight to run than a full-blown Mastodon instance.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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    01 year ago

    I’d suggest making a Matrix space to use with friends. I find that works really great for small groups of people.

  • @_ed@sopuli.xyz If diaspora, they still don’t have ActivityPub support.

    Friendica and Hubzilla, they have group features, but if I remember correctly, if it’s set to private it doesn’t work well with ActivityPub accounts (there are more permissions in Friendica and Hubzilla than is supported by ActivityPub platforms).

    Then there is the #Guppe service (https://a.gup.pe). But I’m not sure how well it works if a post was set in private (I’m assuming the post will be boosted publicly).

    The qoto.org version of the Glitchsoc fork have “Circles” feature, similar to Google Plus and diaspora, if you share to those circles, only them can see it (Friendica and Hubzilla have a similar features too).

    I think MissKey and forks also have a “circle” type feature but I haven’t thoroughly tested it.

    • smallcircles
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      11 year ago

      Also check out Bonfire who’ll also support Circles. Their social microblogging parts is only a foundation of many different functionalities to be built on top.