Christopher on Hubzilla

Christopher on Hubzilla

christopher@my.talesofmy.life

I'm just a Midwestern Jesus Follower, Husband and Dad.

Location:: Midwest USA

Gender:: Male

Status:: Married

Homepage:: https://itschristophers.life/ ✅

2025-07-30 18:42:02

Christopher on Hubzilla

christopher@my.talesofmy.life

I have spun up a few new instances to see which I like best.
Go ahead follow these if you want.
Streams: @Christopher on Streams
Forte: @Christopher on Epic Forte
Friendica: @Christopher on Friendica
Pixelfed: @Christopher on Pixelfed
Hubzilla: @Christopher on Hubzilla
Misskey: @Christopher on Misskey

2025-07-30 18:46:34

Jas Bird

gbm@new.talesofmy.life

When did you spin up Pixelfed? I'm on the .social instance, I think it is, but I seldom take photos ...

2025-08-01 18:58:28

OCTADE

octade@soc.octade.net

@Christopher@clicked.talesofmy.life @itschristopher@the.talesofmy.life @Christopher@fresh.talesofmy.life @christopher@new.talesofmy.life @Christopher@my.talesofmy.life

I like the Friendica UI. However it stores a massive amount of data per user. I tested it with just one local user account and it stored gigabytes in the database in just a few days. Multi-user would likely have needed several terabytes storage.

2025-10-16 02:44:44

EpiscoGrrl

Jay@episcodon.net

@christopher@my.talesofmy.life @christopher@fresh.talesofmy.life I tend to have a presence on many platforms, however, I’m not quite clear on some of these. Can you elaborate on why you picked them and how you envision utilizing them?

2025-10-16 05:24:05

Christopher on Hubzilla

christopher@my.talesofmy.life

@EpiscoGrrl I plan to settle on just one or two of these accounts in the end. I can share a quick run down of these, but I plan to share a more extensive comparison and post about why I landed on the one I love the most once I have tested these out for a while. I do hope anyone reading this can correct any of my misconceptions.
I will end up settling with either Friendica, Hubzilla, Streams, or Forte. These are all in the same family of software. Audience control is a deal breaker for me. Each of these allow you to create 'lists' of people. When posting, you can broadcast your post to one of these lists. Here is an example. I want to post a picture of my family on vacation, but I don't want it to be public, and I have varying degree of friendships online. I can post this vacation picture to a list that will only show this picture to the people I trust. These lists allow control of who sees what. The best part is that these are groups or rooms where your friends have to join. You simply categorize your contacts and post to them accordingly.
These lists also allow you to curate what you want to see in your timeline. Maybe I only want to see content from only those I consider close friends. I just tap on that list and it populates those in that category.
Friendica, Hubzilla, Streams, and Forte all have the ability to share your location if you want in a post. Each of these do it differently. Streams and Forte allow you to 'Check In' to a location and attach a map of your location. Pretty neat when you discover a neat place and want others to find it. How these use location and how it posts it is something I am testing.
Friendica and Hubzilla have the ability to follow RSS Feeds into your timeline. I love this. My local news source is not in the Fediverse, but I can get articles right into my feed just like anyone else I follow here. It works great for those running the Indieweb and are only posting to a personal website. I can grab the RSS feed link and add it as a contact.
Friendica, Hubzilla, Streams and Forte all have a webdav link to connect to your file system. You can easily add photos or files to social media straight from your PC using webdav.
Hubzilla, Streams, and Forte have the ability to clone your account. Great for the Fediverse environment. You can clone your account to another server. If your main server goes down, or even offline indefinitely, all of your content and friends are on the other server. Even when you post from the other server, your posts will appear to be from your main account, even if it is offline.
Hubzilla, Streams, and Forte also have Nomad identity. Similar to cloned accounts, you can take your identity to another server. From what I understand, Hubzilla accounts are only nomad compatible with other Hubzilla servers. I don't think you can take a Streams account and move it to a Hubzilla server. This is something I am testing.
Forte is the baby of these 4. It might still be in development. Friendica and Hubzilla are much older and still being maintained. Streams is young, but also still maintained.
These 4 have a lot of add-ons. There are WordPress connectors, Bluesky connectors, Map add-ons and a lot more.

I wanted to try out Misskey again, so I spun up a new instance of that but I don't see myself sticking with it long term. It is missing the audience control feature, and like I said, that is a deal breaker for me. Same with Pixelfed. It is well built and beautiful to look at, but no audience control other than posting publicly, unlisted or direct message. I need more control than that.

A few things I am testing is federation, compatibility with other software like Mastodon, how the maps work, and user friendliness.

I hope that answers your question. I am running out of time this morning to keep comparing, but I'll gladly answer if you have more questions.

#Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #Forte #Misskey #Pixelfed

2025-10-17 07:24:40

Kris

kris@theres.life

@christopher@my.talesofmy.life @christopher@fresh.talesofmy.life

I read your comment on Hubzilla stream forte etc...

All these plateform respond to your need. Managing your audience with lists that you can mamange.

But you didn't mention differences.

Visualy they are almost the same. I think 99% of the engine is the same

I would be intereted to know the differences