Soapbox imo has to be one of the nicest front-ends for pleroma/mastodon style activitypub platforms, but it was intimated there were some reputational issues with it. Not up to speed I did a small amount of digging which led to plermoadrama....
@_ed Drama is maybe within their community of developers. #Pleroma doesn't deserve to be reviewd by it's developer's personal point of view, but by it's functionality which is great #fediverse platform. Also #rebased good, so who cares about drama...
@boilingsteam#Takahē, an efficient #ActivityPub server implemented in... (checks notes)... #Python? I have to imagine that #Pleroma, written in #RustLang, is a lot more efficient, but maybe it doesn't support handling multiple domains?
Thus far the easiest #activitypub service I’ve installed has been #gotosocial, followed by #mastodon, and I wasn’t actually able to get #pleroma (or any forks) to build properly. I’m really rooting for the @gotosocial team and am looking forward to seeing how it progresses.
I think the issue with #pleroma was just not really understanding the resources needed to build vs run, so it might be worth revisiting that or #akkoma maybe, to experiment.
The weirdness of course being that you can’t really swap out backends easily since the federation basically locks other instances to this particular instance running -this particular software- which still confounds me.
@dudenas not dismissing pleroma and gotoSocial etc at all. :) I am very glad these options exist. When I chose to self host in 2020, pleroma was still very new and most of the current alternatives didn't exist yet. Today I am not sure if I might have made a different choice.
but the smaller user base can be a draw back. this post is about options, not dismissing any of them :)
Gotosocial is considered alpha, Pleroma seems to be mature, and quite feature-rich.
Neither of them has properly developed account migration, which is a deal breaker for me. In other words, if you create an account on Gotosocial or Pleroma instance, you might get to stay there, or leave your followers.
How do I get my own #mastodon /server? I am not a sysadmin. There is 2 routes to this.
a) a managed hosting like masto.host.
➕ very good for no technical experience. web server cost is built in. somebody else is doing all the maintenance
➖ it does cause a bit of a centralization, very few reputable options so limits the options to move.
@eylul What's it with #pleroma ? I thought it is almost mastodon clone, just lighter and better adapted for self hosting. Yet the I see it silently dismissed once again. Is it their dev culture, or the software, or what?
I'm a bit sad #Mastodon is THE fediverse and the rest just in the background and no one mentions them really... #Misskey is awesome, and there is #Pleroma (I don't like the interface, but that does not mean it's not a viable platform, that's a personal taste). Yes mostly #pixelfed is mentioned but that's a bit different type of platform, it's more like Instagram.
Based on fediverse.to, Mastodon has 3601 instances, Pleroma has 911, and Misskey has 432.
Anyway, I would be happy if people mention these options too and not just Mastodon.
What software do people recommend I host if I want to make my own fediverse activity pub server? I was thinking to host pleroma but I would like to get other peoples recommendations.
Aha, nice. I'd personally say there's value to getting more diversity in the kind of apps that are hosted, and then indeed #Pleroma is an option. But also you can consider forks of #Mastodon, such as #Hometown with local-only posting or #Ecko.
If you want to go modern, innovative but still a tad experimental, then #GoToSocial may be a very interesting choice. Bit more experimental still you get to #Bonfire.
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Soapbox imo has to be one of the nicest front-ends for pleroma/mastodon style activitypub platforms, but it was intimated there were some reputational issues with it. Not up to speed I did a small amount of digging which led to plermoadrama....