Firepad vs Tandem: What are the differences?

Firepad: An open-source, real-time, collaborative code and text editing library built on Firebase. An open source collaborative code and text editor. Share documents and see changes occur in real-time; Tandem: Decentralized, cross-editor, collaborative editing. Tandem is a decentralized, collaborative text-editing solution. Tandem works with native text editors, works across different editors, and uses peer-to-peer connections to facilitate communication. Tandem exists as a set of plugins for native text editors. We currently support Sublime Text 3 and Neovim. We also unofficially support Vim.

Firepad and Tandem belong to "Collaborative Text Editor" category of the tech stack.

Firepad and Tandem are both open source tools. It seems that Firepad with 3.2K GitHub stars and 743 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Tandem with 677 GitHub stars and 17 GitHub forks.