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What’s the difference between Kitsune and the existing lightweight servers microblog, GoToSocial, etc?
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What’s the difference between Kitsune and the existing lightweight servers microblog, GoToSocial, etc?
Anyone know of an iOS version?
Looks neat! Anyone know of an iOS version?
Just responded. Check my other comment.
Why fork Pleroma in the first place?
As many of you will be aware, back in 01/2022, there was something of a schism in the smallish group of Pleroma developers with no single cause in my eyes - it was the culmination of years of mounting tensions between two competing interest groups. Pleroma has ever been an uneasy alliance between “free speech” people and free software people, and as the project’s creator aligned more with the former group over time, it was only really a matter of time before something acted as a catalyst to break the alliance.
I shan’t elaborate too much on that schism here, but the catalyst was one developer who both aligned with the “free speech” group and refused to treat other developers with any sort of respect (whilst being a generally unpleasant person to boot) - this broke the developer group in two and spawned the short-lived “newroma” (see, at least I’m not that bad at naming).
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Most of the developers that split off in the fork then went back to Pleroma, after a band-aid fix from the almost-never-present project creator.
I do not believe they have meaningfully reformed anything since the schism, and it’s naught but a power vacuum waiting for someone to take up the mantle of maintainer again - given the track record of the above, I do not trust that whoever ends up winning that power struggle will be someone I wish to side with.
Thus, I’m doing it myself. With blackjack and anime music.
— https://coffee-and-dreams.uk/development/2022/06/24/akkoma.html
If you like Pleroma but found it problematic, definitely check out Akkoma!
I’m pretty sure Akkoma allows for several levels before the admins fully defed another instance. Like, I think one is that they can take an instances off the public timeline. And I think it’ll be great when individual users can block instances (on the server side) so it doesn’t have to be on the admins and have ad much of an effect on the communities at large.
Appropriate username. I’d say both. Both is good.
You can also help by contributing good answers to others’ questions. This will attract folks who can answer your questions.
Since you’re the only one, you might consider setting an expiration on the media so your local storage serves as more of a cache. Like, I’m sure you’re far more likely to revisit a recent thread than a super old one, and as long as the original instance is still around you could redownload the media. This might require software patches though idk
I would too. But only now that I’ve gotten a little familiar with how the fediverse works in practice. For entirely new users, asking them to pay for the Lemmy learning curve is a lot.
It is a good day to fry.