I'm still trying to find a good Mastodon front end or app. I tried Tuba, but I don't care for it. I'm using Elk right now, and I'm mixed on it. May end up making that my first project. I'm rusty af on JS and I know no Ruby at all. My HTML and CSS is better than it was, but still rusty af.
@alex found an error in #Soapbox w/ #Mastodon where if you follow someone and that follow requires approval, but the UI doesn't catch on that the follow has been successful, going into the menu and clicking add or remove from groups causes the site to crash and you have to reload it. Not sure which of these errors caused it
know how social media like Reddit and Tumblr are made fun of for their groupthink? Mastodon and the Fediverse has its own groupthink.
the video mentions Mastodon in passing but says the name sounds like a joke. and yeah, Threads is a much better name. kind of wish Mastodon wasn't named Mastodon. never liked the name. FOSS software in general tends to have ugly names.
Dla mnie najwygodniejsze ma razie jest #soapbox ale może znacie coś co działa jeszcze lepiej i wyglądam przypomina Twittera? Bo oryginalna aplikacja niby ładna ale jendak jakaś taka dziwna 🤷
Z chęcią się dowiem czego używacie 🤸
@bot@alex I hope I'm describing this correctly, but it's a cross between an API and a bridge. It lets you log into #nostr via #Fediverse frontends like #Soapbox or the #Mastodon app.
It definitely has some kinks though. Replies don't work, posts made via #Ditto don't show up everywhere, etc. But it's still very new.
If you can see this on the #Fediverse, like and boost; if you can see this on #Nostr, please do the same, trying to see how well #Ditto is working at the moment (posting this from #Soapbox btw)
Ok, I’ll admit it, I can see the appeal of #calckey. Dare I say it is better than #mastodon… 😱
The few things that are absolutely winning me over:
the social tab as well as all the other post discovery tabs. It sounds so dumb, but discovery is actually really nice! Not just for my posts, but to see other posts! It’s such a no-brainer!
quote-posts. Ok, I was really skeptical of it, but honestly the fediverse is just full of lovely people and being able to slap context onto a post or point to another post within a post is incredible
the big-ass text limit, good lord
the reactions to post
If I were to describe #mastodon, I would say it’s kind and stable, but boring. If I was to describe #calckey, it would be fun and hectic, but early and buggy
I like the UI of Soapbox best, I find Calckey to be busy and distracting. I actually, don't like leaving it open on my desktop because of all the annimations.
Quote posts are nice and available on both platforms.
I like the "Channels" feature and am excited to see where they go. Also, the availability of search is very nice.
I'm not yet ready to switch this account to either of them.
I've been experimenting with Soapbox platform (based on Pleroma) for fediverse. I have my own server using a hosted service.
On a small server, hashtags seem to be pretty useless. I hoped to create a niche account, but without the ability to search for posts or follow a hashtag it's not useful.
I could get on a much larger server or simply use a different tool.
Journalists should have their own Mastodon alternative to use on the #fediverse. Make sure it has all the stuff like QTs and better search they say they require to be here. It would only take one big media corporation to build it, and all these smaller outlets could run their own instances. Call it something like #Newswire.
Plus the dev behind #Nostr("fiatjaf") stating "leftism is a disease" in his bio...
What a cesspool.
"#Soapbox is developed by a massive #TERF, boyfriend/husband to the founder, and co-founder of the transphobic, radical "feminist" hate-platform spinster.xyz. This is where all the TERFs migrated after the reddit ban of /r/gendercritical, /r/LGBdroptheT, ..."
I'm pretty sure that the #Fediverse is one of the first social networks I've been on that didn't ever ask me to betray any of the people in my address book.
After testing the fourth #Fediverse software I conclude that #Akkoma just isn't for me. It has some nice features, but the whole #Erlang / #Elixir setup is just, idk, weird. And inefficient, too. Contrary to popular belief, #Mastodon seems much more streamlined, and faster. I think I will shut my #Akkoma instance, and stay with #Mastodon alongside #GoToSocial. #GTS will be my ultimate destination once it has matured just a little bit more.
I haven't looked at #MissKey yet. I'm a bit afraid that the UI will be as overloaded as #Soapbox which is pretty, but I want something efficient. How "neat" is the back-end side of #MissKey?
If an actor provides an outbox URL, but not an inbox URL, it means that it cannot receive Follow activities and it can not push content to the followers. In such cases, the follower's server should switch to periodic polling like RSS.
This will enable statically-built blogs ( #jekyll#hugo etc) to appear in Mastodon network.
Mastodon monoculture problem (rys.io)