diaspora* is kind-of part of the Fediverse:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedivers…

I don't know which of them was "first", but I've been on diaspora* since 2014, and added Friendica (and Mastodon) to my collection-of-accounts this year (2025).
They're similar to, and different from, each other. Each of them have their purposes.

From a connected-view, Friendica accounts can communicate both with diaspora* and Mastodon, but the latter two can't communicate directly with each other.

I have no idea about the "behind the scenes" parts. I'm on other people's servers ...

I still like diaspora*, because that's where I first dipped my toe into the Fediverse.
I like that comments on re-shared stuff on Friendica end up on the original post (and not as a separate post), but it can be a bit annoying to have a post pushed up to top-of-stream for every someone-else's-interaction-with-the-post that I maybe just thumbed up.
Comments, and posts, are edit-able on Friendica (and Mastodon). Not on diaspora*. This is both good and sometimes kind of annoying.

So, uh, the advantages with diaspora*?
"I like it, because I'm used to it"?
I interact with people there. (But I do that here on Friendica and on Mastodon, too.)

#foto 2012-Feb-19
#photo

(#repost of old post)

I went through some old photos of mine, and got reminded of this “fantastic phenomenon”:

1 program måste fortfarande avslutas:
(Väntar på) explorer.exe
Spelar upp utloggningsljud…
Klicka på Avbryt om du vill stänga programmet som förhindrar
omstart i Windows och stäng sedan programmet.
                                     [Kräv omstart] [Avbryt]

(I finally got myself together and chose “no logout sound”, but it took a while, due to not remembering it until I was about to shut down the computer, and then forgetting about it until the next time I shut it down.)

#computer #netbook #shutdown #waiting #explorerEXE #playing #logout #sound #fail #Windows7Starter

I know - the message is in #Swedish, so I’ve done my best to translate it to #English:

1 program must still be terminated:
(Pending) explorer.exe
Playing logout sound…
Click Cancel if you want to close the programme that prevents
Windows to restart, and then close the program.
                                   [Require restart] [Cancel]

Yeah, I think I know the one you mean (your image wouldn't load for me, I just got the )

it's in German, and it's not even a video description/summary, but rather "a description of youtube"

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

www.youtube.com

↓

- YouTube

On YouTube you will find the most popular videos and tracks. You can also upload your own content and share it with friends or the very world.

www.youtube.com

I did some private link experiments, and one time I got the youtube video embedded, another time I got the "youtube description, in german", and yet another one just got posted as clickable text ... but I also think my experimenting co-incided with some slow internet, so maybe I should re-do them some time ...
(I think I just wanted to know the differences between the "link or media" and "link" icons. 😅🙈)

(and no, I haven't set language to German in any Settings — and I've actually set it to collapse posts in e.g. German for me)

@Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌 @Georgiana Brummell I assume that the alt-text is read when the screen reader gets to an image,
and that it says nothing at all if there's no alt-text
(and I have no idea if there's a difference between alt-text and title-text, because both exist in HTML coding

Ok, I looked it up:
Alt-text is for when an image isn't shown - be it someone who's turned off images, someone who isn't able to see images, or images that doesn't load e.g. due to a bad/slow connection.
Title-text is what can be seen when hovering over an image, i.e. not for the visually impaired.

→ alt-text it is, then!

But I think alt-text is also shown "when mouse-hovering", if there's no title-text.

so, on to the tests:

1: BBCode

code:
[img=https://friendica.world/photo/preview/1024/8289131]Friendica logo, from Wikipedia[/img]

2: Markdown

code:
![alt text: Friendica logo, from Wikipedia](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Friendica_Logo.png "title text: Hello there!")

When I choose Preview, and hover over the images, both give me the "from Wikipedia"-text. No idea where the title text ends up. 😅🙈 (two emojis, one with a sweatdrop smiling face, another with a monkey-see-no-... )

(sorry for the long rambling wall of text)