Diaspora vs. Facebook - the main differences

Again and again the supposed Facebook-Killer Diaspora emerges in the news. We explain the differences and peculiarities of the two social networks.

Differences between Diaspora and Facebook: Decentralized Pods vs. Server Farm

The most important Element of Diaspora is the decentralized structure.
While Facebook , with a few gigantic Server farms, the network operates, to be running Diaspora on many small servers, called Pods.
These Pods are spread all over the world and are operated by individual users or different organizations.
You choose accordingly when you Create your Diaspora account on which Pod you want to register.
You can, for example, depending on the country in which the Pod is, as many or as few Users are registered on the Pod, or whether you trust the operator with your data.
You can even create your own new Pod, if you want to leave your data yourself.
Thanks to the appropriate technology, the pod can communicate with each other but, of course, and so the Diaspora of the network, that is it.
Generally speaking, the Diaspora must not be modified-Software-free and supplemented. This gives users even more ways to shape the network to your Liking.

Diaspora is run by the users of the network itself, Facebook is a stock-listed and for-profit companies.
While the user means for the Diaspora-a bit more work, since you need to take care of themselves in the pod is a Diaspora of advertising for free and the users of data and are relatively safe.
On Facebook, your data are in the hands of the company and will not be the last one used for various promotional and research purposes.
Also advertising it on Facebook numerous. It even goes so far that you sometimes see paid posts in your Feed.
Due to the structure of Diaspora, it is also with increasing size of the network is unlikely that it will ever be advertising.

An essential difference between Diaspora and Facebook, the reach is of course. With almost 900 million daily active users Facebook launches slowly but surely to the limit of what is currently Possible.
Diaspora accounts, however, generally only close to a Million registered.
User-freedom is a core principle of Diaspora. You are free to represent themselves how they want to. A Real-name rule, as Facebook has earlier reinforced by the set, not here.
Also, are you set here are hardly any limits. Generally speaking, this freedom but also invites individuals, whose content will be removed in the other networks very quickly.
While posts and topics can be reported, due to the decentralised structure of the Diaspora, however, it is difficult to remove such content completely and to prevent.
In the case of Facebook, the activity Stream is in the foreground, the you automatically to the Top of the "messages" to filter can can.
In Diaspora you can sort your contacts from the outset in so-called aspects and can manage well, what you share and with whom.
Similar sorting functions, there is also the case of Facebook, they are less in the foreground and are, accordingly, to use cumbersome.
Hashtags are now on Facebook, on Diaspora, but they are a Central Element. Here you will find about numerous topics, and like-minded people.