Favourite Fedi Software.
Feel free to post opinions as to why.
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.
@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 @alex Hmm...is it the interface, or the backend? I actually prefer the #Mastodon interface, it's just way faster on the #Pleroma backend.
I do wonder for those who do not like the interface, why that is. #Mastodon seems to be designed with normies in mind, but to be honest #SoapBox is a lot prettier, is as smooth as any #Pleroma instance would be, and even has more features than #Mastodon. But neither have really caught on.
I look at the #Pleroma interface and go, "man, this looks kinda weird and nerdy", and I wouldn't be surprised if other's felt the same way. I could see people wanting to leave #Mastodon, but honestly I couldn't see them running to #Pleroma. IMHO, design-wise, #Pleroma looks the oldest out of the three, and #SoapBox looks the newest. IDK what the end result is, but it would be nice to see #SoapBox become the new #Mastodon. The #Pleroma interface looks too nerdy to have mass appeal, IMHO
@alex @realcaseyrollins @shebang Interesting. It makes sense. I think back to how Twitter moved from Rails to Scala (and that was they days before Sidekiq workers or microservices).
There's a reason the Erlang VM is used for message passing in big telecos. The JVM can be pretty performant, but it does incur an expensive upfront memory cost.
@djsumdog
Is it true that Pleroma can access exclusively Tor users?
Also does Pleroma use #WebAssembly or only #Javascript?
Thanks in advance.
@alex @realcaseyrollins @shebang
@djsumdog @alex @realcaseyrollins @shebang
We ask because last we checked the Mastodon interface doesn't operate without WebAssembly, and we don't like that.
Tor's highest #Security Level prevents WebAssembly.
@alex
So are you thinking that a streaming service might have tried to fetch some WebAssembly dynamically in order to stream?
@realcaseyrollins @djsumdog @shebang
@alex @realcaseyrollins @djsumdog @shebang
We might be mis-remembering but the entire public timeline would go blank quickly. The whole page - blank.
This did not happen on our profile page. Thats why we were (finally) able to upload a profile pic and cover image.
@realcaseyrollins @shebang @alex The Mastodon frontend UI (in advanced view) is pretty nice (reminds me of TweetDeck), but it still has this terrible issue of, if you leave a scroll bar not at the top, your browser will consume 20GB of ram by tomorrow. (I should stop bitching and just write a patch to add a max to columns).
The back end does feel weighty, but the Redis/ES options do provide some speed up. It's all tradeoffs. Pleroma does have a lot of positive performance considerations.