Some thoughts on diaspora* - why I am a new user to that longest running federated social media platform, and what it will take to keep it from dying off:
https://diasporasocial.net/posts/68e89e20f16e013d71e50a04ffb1b246
diaspora* social networkI am someone that is going against trend and actually am a new user...I am someone that is going against trend and actually am a new user of Diaspora, and intend to self host a pod, at least for my own use and possibly any family and friends I can convince to use the platform, once I figure out port forwarding for my Yunhost server I just got running.
I came to Diaspora as part of my attempt to migrate fully off of corporate controlled social media, being a former heavy user of Facebook, that is now trying to stay logged off of Meta. And while the likes of Mastodon and Lemmy satisfy my use of social media as a form of rss feed, reposting articles of interest and writing short opinions for interests like politics and tech, they definitely do not fulfill my desires to be able to do long form posts, or to share personal news and photos targeted towards a select group of family and friends. And those latter things are something Diaspora most certainly has the ability to do, with its "Aspects" making it easy towards those ends.
The issue I've found is t...