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What are the best fediverse alternative to the big sites on the web? (lemmy.ml)
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I know I've made the jump to Mastodon, and now lemmy. But what are the other sites that I'm missing out on?

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[โ€“] themadcodger@kbin.social 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Do they give a reason why they won't?

[โ€“] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

It's long and complicated, and there are bitter feelings on both sides.

https://discourse.diasporafoundation.org/t/lets-talk-about-activitypub/741

https://overengineer.dev/blog/2018/02/01/activitypub-one-protocol-to-rule-them-all.html

https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/01/13/activitypub-final-thoughts-one-year-later.html

The thing is, he has some valid points. But, much of the fediverse have pretty much figured out basic interoperability, and now we're moving on towards more complex features in federation. Diaspora has, in my opinion, fallen very much behind everyone else.