@Elena Rossini ✏️✨📸 What @Cătă didn't even mention: Maybe you perceive Mastodon's 500-character limit as incredibly generous in comparison to 𝕏's 280-character limit. But what if I told you that both Friendica and Hubzilla, which is where I'm posting from, have no character limits at all? As in, we could theoretically post hundreds of thousands of characters, maybe millions, at once. And this is not to outdo Mastodon because both Friendica and Hubzilla are actually older than Mastodon. When Mastodon was launched, it immediately connected itself with both.

On Friendica and Hubzilla, conversations with comments work without mentions. Once you've received a post, you'll also receive all new comments even if you aren't mentioned, and you don't follow whoever writes the comments. At the same time, your own followers are spared from being spammed with your own comments because they only go to whoever wrote the start post of a thread.

Any Friendica account or Hubzilla channel (see further below) can be configured to act as a moderated group or forum, automatically sending posts and comments to all of its connections. Groups are another feature that's often requested by Mastodon users. By the way, Friendica and Hubzilla groups/forums can be joined and used by just about anyone in the Fediverse, including Mastodon users.

Also, both Friendica and Hubzilla can natively connect to Diaspora* and several other non-ActivityPub protocols and platforms, in Friendica's case including Bluesky. Both even used to be able to connect to Twitter. And I think both have a WordPress cross-poster; I know Hubzilla has one.

And if Friendica already blows you away from a previous "Fediverse == Mastodon" point of view, Hubzilla adds even more stuff on top:

• extensive, fine-grained permission controls at a degree that's nigh-imaginable to most Fediverse users; for example, I can adjust who can generally see my posts, who is allowed to send me their posts, who is allowed to comment on my posts and who is allowed to send me DMs in seven or eight levels, ranging from everyone, if applicable, to everyone with a Fediverse account to only Hubzilla users to only users on my home hub to only those whom I explicitly allow it to only myself
• individual per-contact permission control via configurable presets called contact roles
• privacy groups; basically Mastodon's lists or Friendica's circles, but I can send posts to one specific privacy group, and then nobody else will be able to see these posts because those who receive them can't even boost them, not even on Mastodon
• full, both server-side and client-side support of OpenWebAuth "magic" single sign-on which was developed on a Hubzilla fork, i.e. Hubzilla recognises OpenWebAuth login, and Hubzilla's logins are recognised elsewhere by OpenWebAuth; one of the few features that are newer than Mastodon
• multiple fully separate identities, so-called channels, on the same login in addition to Friendica's multiple profiles per identity
• nomadic identity; imagine having your Mastodon account, i.e. live hot backups of your account constantly kept in sync with each other in real-time, on half a dozen other Mastodon instances
• RSS/Atom feed aggregator; also, each Hubzilla channel generates its own Atom feeds with and without comments (I'm not sure inhowfar Friendica has this implemented)
• Channel Sources optionally let you automatically repost content coming in from selected contacts
• built-in file storage like on Friendica, but with permission controls and with WebDAV access; permission settings can limit read access to the file storage and give other Hubzilla or (streams) users write access
• two calendar systems underneath the same UI, one being basically the same as Friendica's calendar and able to send Event-type objects to those who understand them (Mastodon doesn't), the other one being a CalDAV server
• also, optional built-in CardDAV contacts server
• optional built-in chatrooms with access permission controls (which only work within Hubzilla)
• optionally, long-form articles with the same design and text formatting features as posts, but they aren't automatically sent through the Fediverse
• optionally, built-in wiki engine that allows one to have multiple wikis on the same channel with multiple pages each; permission settings not only control who can read the wikis in a channel, but also which Hubzilla or (streams) users are allowed to edit them
• optionally, support for simple Web pages; again, permission settings can hide these pages from those whom you don't want to see them as well as allow selected Hubzilla or (streams) users to edit them; Hubzilla's own website is part of a Hubzilla channel

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