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Comparison of microblogging and similar services

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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

Service Owner Launched Primary service Software license Content license Multilingual Ad-free
GNU social Open source 2010-03-03 microblogging AGPLv3-or-later[1] CC-BY 3.0 70[2] Yes
Diaspora Open source 2010-11 social network AGPLv3-or-later[3] AGPLv3 31[4] Yes
Facebook Facebook, Inc.[5] 2004-02-04 social network Proprietary own TOS 112 No
Micro.blog Riverfold Software 2017-04-24 microblogging Mixed[6][7] Mixed Yes Yes
Movim Open source 2011-03 social network AGPLv3-or-later[8][9] AGPLv3 59[10] Yes
identi.ca Open source 2008-07-02 [11] microblogging Apache v2 (pump.io) CC-BY 3.0 Yes Yes
Tout Tout 2010-04 [12] microblogging Proprietary own TOS Yes Yes
Twitter Twitter, Inc. 2006-08 [13] microblogging Proprietary own TOS Yes No
Yammer Yammer, Inc. 2008-09 [14] microblogging Proprietary own TOS Yes Yes
Mastodon Open source 2016-10[15] microblogging AGPLv3-or-later[16] own TOS 93[17] Yes
Twister Open source 2013-12-30 microblogging MIT & BSD own TOS 2:en,ru Yes
Tumblr Automattic 2007 microblogging Proprietary own TOS Yes No
Steam community Valve Corporation 2003-09-12 Proprietary own TOS 28[18] Yes
Friendica Open source 2010-07 social network AGPLv3-or-later own TOS Yes Yes

Features

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
Tumblr Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No ?
Facebook Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes No ?
GNU social Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[19]
Twitter Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No[20] No[20] No
Mastodon Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Movim Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Micro.blog Yes No Yes No ? Yes No No
Steam community Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ?
Friendica Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ?
  1. ^ Tagging in micro-blogging services is often done with hashtags.
  2. ^ The ability to see whole conversation (multiple replies) on one flat page.
  3. ^ If this service has the ability to hide posts from the general public.

Posting and reading

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
Web XMPP E-Mail SMS API Micropub Web XMPP E-Mail SMS API Feed ActivityPub
Facebook Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
GNU social Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Twitter Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No
Mastodon Yes No No No Yes No Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes
Movim Yes Yes No No Yes ? Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No
Micro.blog Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[21] No Yes Yes Yes
Friendica Yes No No No Yes No Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes

See also

References

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "GNU social localization". Transifex. 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2022. English translated to 69 languages
  3. ^ "Diaspora AGPL-3.0-or-later". GitHub. 10 November 2022.
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ Eldon, Eric. (2008-12-18). "2008 Growth Puts Facebook In Better Position to Make Money". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
  6. ^ 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
  7. ^ Various. "microddotblog on Github". Github. Micro.blog. Retrieved 2023-01-01.
  8. ^ "Movim AGPL-3.0-or-later". GitHub. 13 December 2021.
  9. ^ "Movim, License". GitHub. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  10. ^ "movim localization". Transifex. 12 November 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022. English translated to 58 languages
  11. ^ "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.
  12. ^ Malone, Michael (2011-12-05). "News Chiefs 'Tout' Benefits of Social Video". Broadcasting & Cable.
  13. ^ Twitter - Where did the idea for Twitter come from?
  14. ^ - About Yammer Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^ "Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform | Hacker News". news.ycombinator.com. Retrieved 2017-02-23.
  16. ^ "mastodon/mastodon". Mastodon. 5 November 2022.
  17. ^ English plus 92 translations listed in "Mastodon translations in Crowdin". Crowdin. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  18. ^ "Steam Translation Server – Welcome". Valve. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
  19. ^ Identi.ca bookmarklet Archived July 20, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  20. ^ a b "Overview: Version 1.1 of the Twitter API". Twitter. Archived from the original on 24 October 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  21. ^ "Email newsletter subscriptions". Micro.blog. Micro.blog. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
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