I've come across a lot of people in the fediverse who appear to be using Mastodon, but I think would find the privacy model of Diaspora much more to their liking. If Diaspora ever has a change of heart and decides to federate over ActivityPub, and produce some user-friendly web videos etc explaining how the Diaspora UI works, I suspect they would have a huge uptick in users. I can certainly think of people I'd encourage to migrate there.
@strypey With respect to privacy models, would Hubzilla and, perhaps more specifically Zap offer a similar privacy experience to Diaspora? At some point I had an account on a Diaspora pod that seems to have since gone offline. My understanding is the Hubzilla/Zap concept of "Nomadic Identity" and cloning seem to offer a potential safeguard to the "my pod went offline" problem.
I'm interested in the tech, but my background is more in policy. Still feeling a bit like an outsider.
