So I'm looking into self-hosting a microblogging fedi thingy and when looking at my options one thing really stands out – what is wrong with Friendica?
I haven't seen anyone using it, but I cannot figure out why. I would have guessed that PHP might be the reason, but all(?) the alternatives are written in JS, so that's not much of a comparative advantage.
Recommendations and anti-recommendations for the general choices very welcome.
Nvm, for whatever reason I was under the impression that Elixir was some JS framework, while it's pretty clearly much more reasonable. Pleroma it is then.
@robryk Maybe a tad _too_ barebones for me, but I'm not sure. Can you point me to an actual instance so I can see the UI? Does it even have one?
https://honk.tedunangst.com/ is an example. Note that instances are single-person.
Aside: it does have some (equally barebones) support for Event
@robryk Wait, are those like Mobilizon-style Events? lol, that's quite far from barebones :D
The UI seems a bit ee~h, but good enough that maybe I should just try it out. Lack of likes bothers me a tad, but definitely not a dealbreaker. Thanks for the tip!
Re likes: well, you can still emit them: https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk/m/honk.3#sendactivity :P
Re kinds of events: I think mobilizon uses the same object? The extent of event support in honk is to have an event timeline and to make a toot with a timestamp attached into an event. Also, I don't really know how what mobilizon does looks like in activitypub (in particular, what does mobilizon do when an event changes its description/timebounds).
@timorl Ah, and also: I don't know if it supports the client-server activitypub protocol (i.e. the thing most nonweb UIs for mastodon use). It does have a sane API and a few examples of its use, though.