GNU Social Vs Mastodon

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Abhiseck Paira
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Iscritto: 05/16/2021
koszkonutek
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Iscritto: 03/19/2020

I see your post as an empty one. Weird.

GNU Social and Mastodon are federated platforms that both utilize the Activity Pub protocol and are hence compatible with each other. My experience 2 or 3 years ago was that GNU Social didn't support some emojis. Despite this minor flaw, I was still able to follow Mastodon users being a GNU Social user myself

Abhiseck Paira
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> I see your post as an empty one. Weird.
I apologize for that, my post appeared fine on mailing list[1] but not on
forums. I think this is because I attached signature with the email.

> GNU Social and Mastodon are federated platforms that both utilize the
> activity pub protocol and are hence compatible with each other.
I thought they use different protocols, and therefore incompatible like Diaspora.

> My experience 2 or 3 years ago was that GNU Social didn't support some
> emojis. Despite this mino flaw, I was still able to follow Mastodon
> users being a GNU Social user myself
Are there any feature-wise differences with Mastodon? One thing I
dislike about Mastodon is they impose a 500 character limit on
posts. They say it's customizable and every instance can have their own
limits but in practice it's so cumbersome that majority of instances
don't bother with it.

[1] https://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/freedom-misc/2021-May/008985.html

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koszkonutek
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Iscritto: 03/19/2020

If you look at the commits, both seem to be under active development (with Mastodon perhaps being a bit more popular). Therefore, I can't give an accurate opinion - somone with *recent* experience could :)