Why do I have this feeling that some other ActivityPub software is going to rise up through the ranks and eventually displace Mastodon?
@nivex Not impossible. I've flirted with the idea of starting a Fediverse instance, and if I did it probably wouldn't be Mastodon.
I'm currently leaning towards Pleroma due to lower overhead and Markdown support, but other suggestions are welcome.
@mathlover For smaller instances I'm keeping an eye on https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/ .
I wonder if something like glitch-soc might decide to go off in their own direction.
@nivex I'll look into this as well!
@mathlover @nivex gotosocial is super easy to run, does very well on an overused small arm sbc ( raspberry equivalent ), and it's very nice with pinafore UI... Lighter than pleroma, simple and without drama...
I stopped using pleroma a couple months ago to migrate to gts and probably won't be going back.
@mathlover @nivex aah the joy of maintaining a fork of mastodon because missing features ( fediverse vets will remember my FTS patches ;) ) ... good memories there hahaha...
@mathlover @nivex no reason to, unless you spam of course :D
I've been on single user instances since 2019 iirc ? no issues at all, except maybe the discoverability of new profiles since my federated timeline is just me... but I follow enough interesting folks that they boost new people in my feed anyway...
@gled @nivex Got it. Thanks for the advice!
Most of the rumors I have heard regarding Fediblock involve people character-assassinating others with false accusations and quote-mined statements. I've fortunately never had it happen in my presence or to myself.
I also recall a huge fracas from years ago where people were harassing server owners on instances other than their own in an attempt to force them to block instances. If my memory is correct this even happened to the developer of Fedilab and involved demands to block Gab, despite Gab having defederated some time before that point. I don't support Gab, and never have, but this kind of stuff always struck me as extremely juvenile even when Gab was still reachable.
Personally if I were an admin and a person tried the "block this other person/instance or I will block/harass/slander you" crap on me, I would block the person making that threat without hesitation.
@mathlover @nivex there may be a couple instances doing that manually, but can't remember a single example where it was a problem, at least in my experience.
fediblock is usually a good tag to follow iirc from my admin days since it would give early warning of instances to block before the cesspool arrives to my server... not too much an issue though as a single user instance, again following just a subset of good folks helps maintaining a decent feed and I don't get randoms from other people...