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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
Diaspora Open source 2010-11 social network AGPLv3-or-later[1] AGPLv3 31[2] Yes
Facebook 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 Weibo Sina Corporation 2009-08 microblogging Proprietary own TOS Yes No
Yammer 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

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
Facebook 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]
Sina Weibo Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No
X (Twitter) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No[25] No[25] Yes[26]
  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[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

References

  1. ^ "Diaspora AGPL-3.0-or-later". GitHub. 10 November 2022. Archived from the original on 22 December 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "GNU social localization". Transifex. 2019. Archived from the original on 14 November 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022. English translated to 69 languages
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform | Hacker News". news.ycombinator.com. Archived from the original on 2020-11-07. Retrieved 2017-02-23.
  8. ^ "mastodon/mastodon". Mastodon. 5 November 2022. Archived from the original on 11 July 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  9. ^ English plus 92 translations listed in "Mastodon translations in Crowdin". Crowdin. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  10. ^ 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
  11. ^ Various. "microddotblog on Github". Github. Micro.blog. Archived from the original on 2022-12-30. Retrieved 2023-01-01.
  12. ^ "Movim AGPL-3.0-or-later". GitHub. 13 December 2021. Archived from the original on 10 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  13. ^ "Movim, License". GitHub. Archived from the original on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  14. ^ "movim localization". Transifex. 12 November 2022. Archived from the original on 14 November 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022. English translated to 58 languages
  15. ^ "Steam Translation Server – Welcome". Valve. Archived from the original on February 20, 2020. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ "About Yammer". Archived from the original on July 18, 2011.
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ "How to get a Facebook RSS feed | Zapier". Archived from the original on 2023-02-26. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  20. ^ "Friendica/Mods/Bookmarklet-share2friendica at develop · friendica/Friendica". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2023-02-26. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  21. ^ "Identi.ca bookmarklet". Archived from the original on July 20, 2009.
  22. ^ "Mastodon Follow/Interact Bookmarklet". Archived from the original on 2023-02-26. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  23. ^ Tumblring Basics (tumblebasics) (Apr 9, 2016). "Tumblr Tip: Install The Bookmarklet For Easy Posting". Tumblr. Archived from the original on Feb 26, 2023.
  24. ^ [https://github.com/RadLikeWhoa/bookmarklets/blob/17f7f8dda6f9365749a8c4a3d5e9ff70f8e0ee84/networks/Tumblr.json[permanent dead link][bare URL]
  25. ^ a b "Overview: Version 1.1 of the Twitter API". Twitter. Archived from the original on 24 October 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  26. ^ https://github.com/iamrajiv/Twitter-Bookmarklet][https://github.com/RadLikeWhoa/bookmarklets/blob/17f7f8dda6f9365749a8c4a3d5e9ff70f8e0ee84/networks/Twitter.json[bare URL]
  27. ^ "Share new posts on your Facebook page via Gmail email". Archived from the original on 2023-02-26. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  28. ^ "How to Share Facebook Posts with Non-Facebook Friends". 18 April 2018. Archived from the original on 26 February 2023. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  29. ^ "Email newsletter subscriptions". Micro.blog. 6 December 2021. Archived from the original on 2023-01-02. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
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