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The sad truth is that Diaspora pretty much refuses to federate with anything other than itself. Some projects have managed to reverse engineer the protocol, but you'd honestly have more luck with Friendica or Hubzilla. Even then, neither of those things are perfectly analogous to Facebook.
Do they give a reason why they won't?
It's long and complicated, and there are bitter feelings on both sides.
https://discourse.diasporafoundation.org/t/lets-talk-about-activitypub/741
https://overengineer.dev/blog/2018/02/01/activitypub-one-protocol-to-rule-them-all.html
https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/01/13/activitypub-final-thoughts-one-year-later.html
The thing is, he has some valid points. But, much of the fediverse have pretty much figured out basic interoperability, and now we're moving on towards more complex features in federation. Diaspora has, in my opinion, fallen very much behind everyone else.