diaspora* vs Misago
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted social networks options
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
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Compare diaspora* with
choose an app… Mastodon Discourse Invidious NodeBB Lemmy Nitter Element Misskey Piped Fizzy Pixelfed Flarum HumHub Elk WriteFreely LibReddit Campsite Campfire Redlib Mixpost Pro Vanilla Forums Loomio Artalk pump.io Plume Pleroma Endurain Manyfold phpBB Movim Elgg Friendica Mobilizon Phanpy Firefish OSSN Bridgy Fed Takahe Microblog.pub Fedify snac NeoDB webmention.io Bridgy Hometown Glitch-soc Soapbox Enigma 1/2 BBS Chirpy kbin Sharkey ActivityPub for WordPress Smithereen Postmarks Mastodon Bird UI Wavelog Hollo Gathio Loops Snikket Ktistec Libremdb Mbin Trustroots Akkoma Gancio Honk Socialhome Hubzilla Epicyon Iceshrimp mlmym Wafrn GoBlog Hatsu BuddyPress Sphinx Relay noStrudel Mitra lemmyBB Friendiqa Hub Fedibird MeshChatX Streams Enafore Sublinks Buddycloud Libervia Zap Nostr Relay Squeaknode Khatru Pyramid Catodon Route96 Osada usocial Tesseract AsmBB Bloat Forte GoToSocial Iceshrimp.NET Masto-FE (🦥 flavour) Peachpub PeerTube search-index Snort yarn.social
Compare Misago with
choose an app… Mastodon Discourse Forem Invidious NodeBB Lemmy Nitter Element Misskey Spectrum Piped Fizzy Pixelfed Flarum HumHub Elk WriteFreely LibReddit Campsite Campfire Redlib Mixpost Pro Vanilla Forums FlaskBB Loomio Laravel.io Artalk pump.io phpBB Talkyard esoTalk MyBB SMF django-machina YAF.NET FluxBB JForum lemmyBB PunBB ElkArte Discourse-compatible Antville FUDforum Phorum bbPress Discuz! X
Feature diaspora* Misago Category Social Networks Social Networks License AGPL-3.0 GPL-2.0 Language Ruby Python Setup difficulty Hard Medium Min. RAM 1,024 MB 1,024 MB Deployment docker, bare-metal, source docker, source GitHub stars ★ 13,656 ★ 2,774 First released 2010 2016 Replaces Facebook, Twitter phpBB, Discourse
Frequently asked questions Is diaspora* or Misago better? Neither is universally better. diaspora* has the larger community, while Misago is simpler to set up (medium difficulty). Choose based on the comparison table above and your own setup.
Are diaspora* and Misago free and open-source? Yes. diaspora* is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and Misago under GPL-2.0. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run diaspora* and Misago with Docker? diaspora*: yes. Misago: yes.