@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

Thanks for the information!

I’m sure I will have questions but am out of time myself this morning. Bookmarked and favorited so I can respond as soon as time permits.