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@mastodonmigration @feditips
I've seen there's various forks of Mastodon (Glitch, Hometown and possibloy others), plus there's Calckey, Misskey, Akkoma and others i'm forgetting that are similar enough.
Do we have guides on what's the difference *for the users*? Not for the admins, but for the users? Haven't found much yet and was wondering if there was an advantage of going for a server that isn't vanilla Mastodon
For variations on Mastodon it depends on the settings used by the admin. Glitch has lots of optional features which can be switched on or off, or adjusted. For example the character limit might be set by the admin to 1000 or much higher.
For Calckey, Akkoma etc the experience will be totally different because the software isn't based on Mastodon at all. I'm not sure how much help a guide would be compared to just having a look at their websites.
@jherazob@mastodon.ie
If you go to https://calckey.org and scroll down to the bottom of the page, there's a table presenting the various micro-blogging applications (plus Pixelfed) and their functionalities.
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online @feditips@mstdn.social
Late reply but I hope this helps (as of mid-April, 2023). I’m using the one marked in red - was omitted from the list so took the liberty of adding it.
rk & Friendship! @Deus @jherazob @feditips
(just updated, nothing much more apart from better sense)
OK!.. I think newer Mastodon (or saw somewhere, has self-destructing media that can be be set and then it disappears - any comments on this welcome anyone?) but I guess if you had lots of users then media does add up (I make my stuff less than 1000K usually... or less than 1 floppy disk per post 
And I'll stay in my lane with the basic Mastodon for now for Fediverse in and out box interface for humans and even wait until for my suggestion of "ActivityPub email" to be done (!) to merge the messages in and out with a kind of mail front end even if at start doesn't connect to non-Fedi stuff :) 
See info here on that idea https://qoto.org/@freeschool/108521437249228849
Above is not officially sent as I decided a while back that "Mastodon" should have Mastodon feedback possible on Mastodon itself!!
But back to the email idea, a few people said "yeah!" and seemed qualified to say the Fediverse email idea wasn't so bad! (Also as an anti-Google monopoly thing makes effort to change that balance they have crushingly and spy on everyone)
Imagine our own mail.. and social !? :) Call it Fediverse+ ? or Fedimail? :) 
@jherazob @mastodonmigration @feditips
Seems to me that the user experience has more to do with settings than platform - Mastodon's character limit is just a default setting and strictly cultural, for instance.
As much as I'd rather it didn't, I believe that a "mainstream" mastodon will emerge, with splinter networks, and users who want more than the vanilla XP (say, who want uncensored nudist content) will have client software that manages multiple servers/federations.
All very doable.
@jherazob thanks for your boost. When I joined I kept reading that it doesn't make much difference - but it must, to some extent. My hunch is that it is something to do with where your needs/wants are on the range from niche to diversity. I'm pretty diverse, but definitely in the human, nature, psychology zone more than tech, fantasy. Having said that, Is be interested, just probably not invest a little of time. As for a guide, I guess we are on a spectrum there, too. Some want a guide and others, less so!