Favourite Fedi Software.

Feel free to post opinions as to why.

@shebang I think Pleroma is doing everything right on a fundamental level. The switchable frontends promotes longevity, as that piece can be upgraded or changed completely independently of the backend. This allows developers to take the software in pretty much any direction they want. I envision a future where backend development is consolidated on Pleroma, and there are many competing frontend options. The fact it's interoperable enough to do that is amazing.

Elixir is a good language choice, and it's extremely efficient, lowering the barrier of entry and making it cheap to spin up hundreds of servers. I love everything about it.

I played a lot with Misskey today and it impressed me at how feature rich it is, but I think Pleroma is a better foundation and they will catch up quickly on some features.

Mastodon is out of the question, lmao. It has its perks, but it's very quickly becoming obsolete.

@alex @shebang What makes you say it's becoming obsolete? Do you think people will switch away from it to #Pleroma in the near future?

@realcaseyrollins @alex I agree with Alex here, I think Mastodon already feels dated somehow — mainly the direction the developers are going isn’t somewhere promising. Despite being the Capital of Cancel City, it has terrible moderation features even. Pleroma is upbeat and active, new stuff happening — stuff people actually want. There really isn’t a reason to use Mastodon that I can think of, with the sole exception of its language filtering.

Misskey is really fun, but its .. very quirky. I’m curious to follow its development though.

@shebang @realcaseyrollins I think Eugen feels demoralized that many of his users hate him. I think deep down he knows this whole "cancel culture" thing is not good, but he's too deep now to change gears. It's part of the Mastodon brand.

@alex @shebang Huh. So people wanting to switch might be more of a culture thing than a User Experience thing? Or perhaps those are intertwined.

@realcaseyrollins @alex Well I think there is a culture element, but I’m not interested in that exactly. Its just a combination of things like bad performance vs pleroma, the fact I need to run a fork just to get decent emoji support comparable to pleroma out of the box or get the post size limit upped. Its purely technical.

As for the UI, well that runs fine in Pleroma anyway.

@shebang @alex
> Mastodon is stagnating and becoming obsolete

Interesting. so, you think people will only use software that gradually improves? I suppose this does make sense.

> As for the UI, well that runs fine in Pleroma anyway.

Interesting. So, #Mastodon as a FE will probably never die then