**Adam** @ink_slinger@mastodon.club · Mar 27, 2018, 01:11

**Adam** @ink_slinger@mastodon.club · Mar 27, 2018, 01:11

Adam @ink_slinger@mastodon.club

Playing around with #diaspora has made me ponder the difference in use case between it and #Mastodon. I like both, and they can federated with one another, but other than UI they don't seem particularly different. Once you get past the paint job, are they really different enough to use both?

**Hallå Kitteh** @clacke@social.heldscal.la · Mar 28, 2018, 02:42

**Hallå Kitteh** @clacke@social.heldscal.la · Mar 28, 2018, 02:42

@inkslinger The Fediverse and the Federation federate in a very limited sense -- you can follow a Diaspora account from GNU Social. I don't even know how you would do it from Mastodon.

But there's no interaction, it's just like following an RSS feed (which is basically what's going on).

**Sean Tilley** @deadsuperhero · 2018-03-28T02:45:34Z

Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero

@clacke @ink_slinger It's a gap that I hope we can bridge someday.

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**Hallå Kitteh** @clacke@social.heldscal.la · Mar 28, 2018, 02:45

**Hallå Kitteh** @clacke@social.heldscal.la · Mar 28, 2018, 02:45

@deadsuperhero @inkslinger Everybody implements AP. Done. :-)

**Algernon Whistlewright** @whistlewright@gnusocial.no · Mar 28, 2018, 03:54

**Algernon Whistlewright** @whistlewright@gnusocial.no · Mar 28, 2018, 03:54

At the end of the day it's all just fancy email

**Hallå Kitteh** @clacke@social.heldscal.la · Mar 28, 2018, 03:55

**Hallå Kitteh** @clacke@social.heldscal.la · Mar 28, 2018, 03:55

@whistlewright It is! E-mail does need to be fancified tho.

**vaeringjar-highone** @vaeringjar@gnusocial.no · Mar 28, 2018, 04:07

**vaeringjar-highone** @vaeringjar@gnusocial.no · Mar 28, 2018, 04:07

@clacke @whistlewright I think we could benefit if we could encapsulate the GUI, the comm layer(s), and the database/schema into interchangeable modules. Diaspora UI on top of Mastodon data with a fediverse-federation comm.

**Hallå Kitteh** @clacke@social.heldscal.la · Mar 28, 2018, 04:39

**Hallå Kitteh** @clacke@social.heldscal.la · Mar 28, 2018, 04:39

@vaeringjar @whistlewright Yes! I was just thinking that I want Pleroma FE on top of patchfoo.

Basically I want Pleroma FE on top of All The Things.

**kaniini** @kaniini@pleroma.dereferenced.org · Mar 28, 2018, 02:53

**kaniini** @kaniini@pleroma.dereferenced.org · Mar 28, 2018, 02:53

@deadsuperhero @ink_slinger @clacke

I hear there is a social server that has this as an eventual goal :)

**Adam** @ink_slinger@mastodon.club · Mar 28, 2018, 03:07

**Adam** @ink_slinger@mastodon.club · Mar 28, 2018, 03:07

@kaniini All that info about Plemora is good to know. It really does make Plemora sound more interesting than I thought.

**diablo** @diablo@testing.pleroma.lol · Mar 28, 2018, 02:53

**diablo** @diablo@testing.pleroma.lol · Mar 28, 2018, 02:53

@deadsuperhero @ink_slinger @clacke Well I suppose that is a matter of preferences. I use both, but my main social network (where I spend mostly my time) is here, due, in first place, it's mobile my main source of connection. D* has very poor support of crossposting among floss networks, in part because its developers have never finished the api and its devs are a few members. So, interaction is very limited.

**Adam** @ink_slinger@mastodon.club · Mar 28, 2018, 14:55

**Adam** @ink_slinger@mastodon.club · Mar 28, 2018, 14:55

@diablo Yeah, I used both fairly consistently now, but definitely use Mastodon way more than diapora or any other social network (except, maybe, Reddit, if we consider that social media).