Big upgrade for the comparison tables

2025-06-29 13:42:47

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Mastodon vs Facebook alternatives: Now with Forte! (CW: Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta)

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2025-06-29 16:17:07

Alexander Goeres 𒀯

jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

wow! what an effort! looks great!

2025-06-29 22:38:12

Mike Macgirvin ?️

mikedev@fediversity.site

A few corrections...

Instances - (streams) https://fediversity.site/communities?type=streams_repository
Instances - (forte) Fediverse Observer (shows 1 instance with no users - [because my instance details are none of your damn business]; I know of several other instances personally and all are visible to fediverse observer, but have not yet been discovered). Fedidb only counts "notable" or "popular" projects with dansup deciding who lives and who dies.

beginner guide guide: /help/guide (streams and forte)
User documentation: /help
Location and contact information fields - location:yes - streams and forte
Gender - 8 predefines (streams and forte)

Limit access to your profile: public, approved connections, any individual connection via permissions/roles (streams/forte)

Other preference/interest fields: yes (streams and forte)

On individual permissions, we do not grant permissions to anybody for things like 'send you posts'. We cannot control what other people do. We control what we accept. Anybody can comment, but if we're not accepting comments from you, we'll never see them.

Grant/deny individual permission to repost and quote-post your posts - we do not have a quote post permission. The permission is for somebody to republish your content "as if it was written by them". This only covers usage within the Fediverse Identity Manager.

Max. characters (remote) - Configurable (streams, forte) default is 200,000. Longer posts are sent as Articles.

Restricted/private groups can be joined by - anybody in the fediverse (streams, forte)

Official central directory - (hubzilla) yes, any site can become a mirror of the central directory

OCAP permissions override for media embedded into posts - yes (streams, forte)