So, looking at three #Misskey clients on the Mac so far, those being #Kimis#missririca (also on Android) and #Misscat, all of them if running on a Mac using #Voiceover (where Kimis is a Mac exclusive), all three of them have some issue or another at the moment.
As for #Friendica, I'll be over there as well sometime.
When that is, highly unsure at the moment. One thing's definite though, both Friendica and #Pleroma have a way set more of #Blind friendly clients for screen reader use, on all platforms.
Misskey 's new, ain't gonna go hard on them too much. I know someone among the blind community will.
@kojote Mastodon, #Pleroma oder #Calckey oder andere heissen ja "Microblogging" Plattformen. Wenn es längere Texte sind, wie bei einem "normalen" Blog, kann man #Writefreely, #Friendica oder andere nehmen oder auch Wordpress mit dem #Activity Plugin. Das #Fediverse bietet so viel!
Hier im Podcasts ab ca. Min. 15 werden auch noch mal von @Lioh einige Hintergründe zum Fediverse berichtet, an dem sie auch selbst aktiv mitentwickelt hat (auch sehr aufschlussreich in Bezug auf die aktuellen Zentralisierungs-Tendenzen im Fediverse)
Für alle Themen und Projekte gilt aber: gnulinux.ch ist ein Community-Projekt, an dem alle eingeladen und aufgerufen sind, mitzuwirken und selbst zu schreiben: gnulinux.ch/mitschreiben
Je mehr Perspektiven hier eingebracht werden, desto besser! @Kaiteki@caos
I'm very glad to announce the release of version 2.27 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in ANSI C. It includes some interesting new features (that I announced some days ago):
Started Mastodon API support, so you can use Mastodon-compatible apps to access #snac accounts. What works so far: login, private and public timelines, full post information (replies and ancestors), liking and boosting posts. Things that don't work yet but eventually will: following accounts, posting and replying to messages (I still have to figure out how some things work, like posting images), notifications (needs some internal support), the instance timeline (snac does not have one, but it can be simulated with not much effort) and probably many other things. Things that will never work: bookmarks, pinning, a federated timeline, many other things that I don't remember right now. Please note that if you want to use this API in your instance, you must add some lines to your HTTP proxy configuration, see the snac(8) (administrator documentation) manual page. I'm doing my tests using the #Tusky (which sometimes crashes, surely my fault), #AndStatus, #Fedilab and #Husky Android apps. Success or failure reports will be appreciated.
Fixed some buffer overflows (contributed by Saagar Jha).
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.
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?
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.
@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?
If we want the network of apps to grow, developers needs to talk together and find consensus. This initiative looks like it's moving in the right direction!