The tables below compare general and technical information for some notable active microblogging services, and also social network services that have status updates.
General information
[edit]Service | Owner | Launched | Primary service | Software license | Content license | Multilingual | Ad-free |
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Diaspora | Open source | 2010-11 | social network | AGPLv3-or-later[1] | AGPLv3 | 31[2] | Yes |
Meta[3] | 2004-02-04 | social network | Proprietary | own TOS | 112 | No | |
Friendica | Open source | 2010-07 | social network | AGPLv3-or-later | own TOS | Yes | Yes |
GNU social | Open source | 2010-03-03 | microblogging | AGPLv3-or-later[4] | CC BY 3.0 | 70[5] | Yes |
identi.ca | Open source | 2008-07-02 [6] | microblogging | Apache v2 (pump.io) | CC BY 3.0 | Yes | Yes |
Mastodon | Open source | 2016-10[7] | microblogging | AGPLv3-or-later[8] | own TOS | 93[9] | Yes |
Micro.blog | Riverfold Software | 2017-04-24 | microblogging | Mixed[10][11] | Mixed | Yes | Yes |
Movim | Open source | 2011-03 | social network | AGPLv3-or-later[12][13] | AGPLv3 | 59[14] | Yes |
Steam community | Valve Corporation | 2003-09-12 | Proprietary | own TOS | 28[15] | Yes | |
Tout | Tout | 2010-04 [16] | microblogging | Proprietary | own TOS | Yes | Yes |
Tumblr | Automattic | 2007 | microblogging | Proprietary | own TOS | Yes | No |
Twister | Open source | 2013-12-30 | microblogging | MIT & BSD | own TOS | 2:en,ru | Yes |
Sina Corporation | 2009-08 | microblogging | Proprietary | own TOS | Yes | No | |
Viva Engage | Yammer, Inc. | 2008-09 [17] | microblogging | Proprietary | own TOS | Yes | Yes |
X (Twitter) | X Corp.[18] | 2006-08 | microblogging | Proprietary | own TOS | Yes | No |
Features
[edit]An overview of integral features. Extras may be provided by third party applications/services, but are not listed here.
Service | Tagging[Note 1] | Groups | Conversation[Note 2] | Private[Note 3] | Private following list | RSS | Atom | Bookmarklet |
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Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No[19] | No | No | |
Friendica | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[20] |
GNU social | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[21] |
Mastodon | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[22] |
Micro.blog | Yes | No | Yes | No | ? | Yes | No | No |
Movim | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Steam community | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Tumblr | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes[23][24] |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |
X (Twitter) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[25] | No[25] | Yes[26] |
Posting and reading
[edit]Communication methods supported by the services. Extras may be provided by third party applications/services, but are not listed here.
Service | Post via | Read via | |||||||||||
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Web | XMPP | SMS | API | Micropub | Web | XMPP | SMS | API | Feed | ActivityPub | |||
Yes | No | Yes[27] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes[28] | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
Friendica | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GNU social | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mastodon | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Micro.blog | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[29] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Movim | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
X (Twitter) | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Diaspora AGPL-3.0-or-later". GitHub. 10 November 2022. Archived from the original on 22 December 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ^ Afrikaans, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Interlingua, Italian, Macedonian, Malayalam, Norwegian, Nynorsk (New Norwegian), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sardinian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese Chinese, Tamil, Turkish
- ^ Heath, Alex (October 19, 2021). "Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name". The Verge. Archived from the original on October 20, 2021. Retrieved October 20, 2021.
- ^ "README file". Archived from the original on 2014-11-03. Retrieved 2015-02-09.
...under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- ^ "GNU social localization". Transifex. 2019. Archived from the original on 14 November 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
English translated to 69 languages
- ^ "Control Yourself, Inc. launches Identi.ca, the Open Microblogging Service". Control Yourself, Inc. 2008-07-02. Archived from the original on April 10, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-02.
- ^ "Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform | Hacker News". news.ycombinator.com. Archived from the original on 2020-11-07. Retrieved 2017-02-23.
- ^ "mastodon/mastodon". Mastodon. 5 November 2022. Archived from the original on 11 July 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ^ English plus 92 translations listed in "Mastodon translations in Crowdin". Crowdin. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
- ^ Much of the client software is open source, but the code running the Micro.blog site is currently not released, as of 2023-01-02
- ^ Various. "microddotblog on Github". Github. Micro.blog. Archived from the original on 2022-12-30. Retrieved 2023-01-01.
- ^ "Movim AGPL-3.0-or-later". GitHub. 13 December 2021. Archived from the original on 10 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ^ "Movim, License". GitHub. Archived from the original on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
- ^ "movim localization". Transifex. 12 November 2022. Archived from the original on 14 November 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
English translated to 58 languages
- ^ "Steam Translation Server – Welcome". Valve. Archived from the original on February 20, 2020. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
- ^ Malone, Michael (2011-12-05). "News Chiefs 'Tout' Benefits of Social Video". Broadcasting & Cable. Archived from the original on 2019-12-14. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
- ^ "About Yammer". Archived from the original on July 18, 2011.
- ^ Wei, De Wei; Katanuma, Marika (April 11, 2023). "Twitter Company 'No Longer Exists,' Is Now Part of Musk's X". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on April 11, 2023. Retrieved April 11, 2023.
- ^ "How to get a Facebook RSS feed | Zapier". Archived from the original on 2023-02-26. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- ^ "Friendica/Mods/Bookmarklet-share2friendica at develop · friendica/Friendica". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2023-02-26. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- ^ "Identi.ca bookmarklet". Archived from the original on July 20, 2009.
- ^ "Mastodon Follow/Interact Bookmarklet". Archived from the original on 2023-02-26. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- ^ Tumblring Basics (tumblebasics) (Apr 9, 2016). "Tumblr Tip: Install The Bookmarklet For Easy Posting". Tumblr. Archived from the original on Feb 26, 2023.
- ^ [https://github.com/RadLikeWhoa/bookmarklets/blob/17f7f8dda6f9365749a8c4a3d5e9ff70f8e0ee84/networks/Tumblr.json[permanent dead link] [bare URL]
- ^ a b "Overview: Version 1.1 of the Twitter API". Twitter. Archived from the original on 24 October 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
- ^ https://github.com/iamrajiv/Twitter-Bookmarklet][https://github.com/RadLikeWhoa/bookmarklets/blob/17f7f8dda6f9365749a8c4a3d5e9ff70f8e0ee84/networks/Twitter.json [bare URL]
- ^ "Share new posts on your Facebook page via Gmail email". Archived from the original on 2023-02-26. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- ^ "How to Share Facebook Posts with Non-Facebook Friends". 18 April 2018. Archived from the original on 26 February 2023. Retrieved 26 February 2023.