@chmod777 well my private instance runs #Pleroma so that's that. I also have a Pixelfed account, Friendica account and Iceshrimp instance account (last two are rarely used).
Any #Pleroma/#Akkoma users out there who have had any luck with the #bitlbee integration, or any other way of #IRC bridging?
I used bitlbee-mastodon on Mastodon before, but it breaks on Pleroma because of streaming API incompatibilities. There seem to be an open issue on Pleroma too which apparently hasn’t been actioned in years.
@zimpenfishsuggested here to use the native Bitlbee identica plugin, but I haven’t had any luck with that either.
Is there anyone currently working on these issues, or who has any alternatives at hand, before I try and do some more debugging myself?
The plans are moving to pull the plug from this instance and migrate to a new one.
Running Mastodon really isn't fun anymore. I need 100GB of space on an S3 bucket just to store a cache that I can never delete, and 6GB of RAM constantly allocated by Redis or sidekiq just to run an instance with me and 3-4 more active users. There must be a better way.
I have registered a new domain, configured the DNS, and I'm currently toying with Akkoma to see if it meets my needs. I may also toy with CalcKey before taking any decisions.
It may be challenging for me to immediately replicate all the feature of this instance on a new one (especially if I opt for Pleroma/Akkoma, as I'm far more familiar with Ruby than with Elixir/Nix), but it may be a good opportunity to experiment with some new shiny toys.
Of course, I'll personally reach out to the active users on this instance to check if they need any assistance with migration / data dumps before it shutting down.
@tshirtman@blacklight If you look at #Mastodon instances that accept donations and show their costs, it is quite easy to see that their hosting costs do increase significantly the longer they exist and the bigger they are. I recently saw one instance project their 2024 costs at €27000. That's a whole lot of money for hosting a website.
Having ran instances with a few dozen members, I've always been able to just use a €5/mo VPS somewhere, and never run into issues, simply by using better software, in my case #Pleroma. If I were to set up a new instance today I'd most likely look into #Akkoma first, too.
Bug | Friendica: Das hat irgendwie den Rahmen zerschossen
Eben habe ich in meinen Stream/Timeline folgendes gesehen:
Rufe ich den Beitrag einzeln auf, sieht es genauso aus. Der Link zum Originalbeitrag ist hier. Ich habe aber keine Ahnung warum das bei mir so dargestellt wird.
It doesn't matter if you are new to the #fediverse or if you have been here forever, it's always good to keep in mind that (a) what server you pick, and (b) what software that server runs, matter.
I should admit am fairly new at this. I created my first fediverse account only a year ago. It was a #mastodon server with about 8,000 users. And while it "worked" there was something missing from the experience.
While researching the idea of hosting my own server, I discovered #FireFish which in turn led to discovering #IceShrimp. It's hard to describe how much better the experience is with IceShrimp.
The #UI is just so much better, and the feature set way more robust. The way it handles replies, the ability to quote, to use multiple emojis, etc.
If you have friends or family thinking about joining the Fediverse or are feeling unimpressed with your mastodon experience, I highly recommend getting an account running IceShrimp or other similar software.
Probably also worth mentioning that I also looked at using a #Wordpress integration and #Hubzilla#GoToSocial#Pleroma#Humhub and #Streams. I found them to be clunky; reminding me of how email was in the early 90s.
If the fediverse is going to thrive, then it needs to make a good first impression. Moving beyond mastodon is a good step in the right direction.
Ok, I could be reading too much into it, but it really would be nice if maybe I wasn't the only one that mentioned maybe it's something they should look into?
@mousey Replace #Matrix with something more performant, reliable, and less resource intensive like #XMPP. Similarly, #Mastodon is probably the least attractive choice to promote for the #Fediverse. The interface is clunky, and hosting it is ridiculously expensive for large userbases. Consider #MissKey or #Pleroma instead. Much easier to setup and maintain!
The more I experiment with #Mastodon and #ActivityPub more broadly, the more I am convinced that it’s possible to build a #Patreon replacement on the #Fediverse
Patreon is a closed platform, but it’s a key tool for many content creators to make a living out of their work: writers, video makers, podcasters, and so on
A Fediverse alternative would basically bridges a payment system with tiered access based on payment status
Even with #Zapier, I think it could already be done!
@o_simardcasanova Compromising one proprietary tool for another seems like a pretty dumb move, though. You're not really improving the situation here, which makes me wonder why you're promoting #Zapier of all potential solutions.
Also, the remark on #Pleroma is mostly due to your post portraying #Mastodon as the only potential #Fediverse platform to move to, which is disingenuous and rude to the Fediverse as a whole, which existed before Mastodon even became a thing.
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As an #Asian myself, I'm happy to see that ideas, developers, and software from #Japan are going mainstream. There are a lot of things the West, and the world for that matter, can learn from Japan.
Not only from the Japanese, to be exact, even from #Korean made software. I talked about last year how #Korea created its own Internet culture that not even #Google and #Microsoft can compete with. (See: #Naver's amazing interconnected platforms; what Google would have been if they had a vision.)
Pleroma itself also have a lot of forks, though not as much as #Misskey and #Mastodon. One such is #Rebased.
You can give the Rebased fork a try over at https://c.wtf featuring the #Soapbox frontend. (#DidYouKnow that the Soapbox frontend originally started as a custom frontend for Mastodon?)
@youronlyone I don't think @lain (who is the creator and lead dev of #Pleroma) is Asian, he's German.
Though I think I remember reading somewhere that he has an Asian wife. Might be wildly wrong on that though, so take that with a huge grain of asin :koakuma_giggle:
If this "privacy setting" for #quoteposts is implemented with it enabled by default, the result will be disastrous. :reisensweat: Since there is no other way to enforce this setting other than #defederation, we are going to see Mastodon servers strong-arming those software developers who are "non-compliant" by threatening a #fediblock. :reisensweat: Developers of the -key and -oma families will suddenly have to scramble to make their implementation of #quotetweets compatible with Mastodon's "privacy-friendly" implementation. :satsuki_sadge: This way of "extending" the fediverse is not acceptable, and everyone who has opposed #Facebook joining the fediverse due to #EmbraceExtendExtinguish should also oppose this issue which just eventually leads to the same result.
Do any of the #Fediverse platforms have a function to swipe through a whole timeline of media/photos? I mean like in one post with several photos you can click/swipe through them, this function for a whole timeline.
Any Mastodon kompatible app? Maybe hidden somewhere in Pleroma?