@freemo browsing through instances to find my place, this scholars/science focused one looks promising. I'll follow how it grows with interest, are you the admin?

@arteteco Yup, I sure am. Professional programmer and comfortable sys admining. Though I hired a full time guy to sys admin as well for qoto.org.

With that said I take suggestions on bots, or other federated services you'd like to see offered. If I like the suggestions I am happy to bring it up within a few days. Currently working on a PeerTube server and trying to figure out what other services make sense.

Any ideas?

@freemo Sorry, so far all I can bring is my support and questions =D I'd be curious to know how you plan to make this instance self-sustaining, money-wise, and if you have any idea on how to keep the focus you write in the home page. Also, if there is any reason you chose mastodon over pleroma, I can't find a detailed comparison anywhere

@arteteco Questions and support are more than welcome as well.

I plan to pay for qoto out of my own pocket for now, I have more than enough money to support it. With that said if it grows to the point where it costs more than a few 100 a month to maintain I will likely just have my company sponsor it directly (it is focused on decentralized open-source software).

The reason I chose mastadon was it seems to have the best federation support of all the platforms. As far as I know pleorma doesnt really do federated timelines across the whole fediverse. Another very important reason is that mastodon supports ActivityPub and OStatus while Pleorma just supports OStatus. So basically Mastodon can federate with many services that Pleorma can not.

@freemo well, thanks for your reply and your kindness in keeping this instance up and running then!

Just as a note, pleroma supports both ostatus and activitypub (internally too, as it uses for the instance chat), and does federated timelines just as good, AFAIK.

@arteteco I only took a quick look and didnt see a federated timeline. Perhaps the instance I tested hid it?

@freemo I confirm #pleroma gives a federated timeline, but if nobody follows anyone else, then it may be empty ;-)
I think pleroma has less features than mastodon, but it is also much more lightweight and easier to install (it can run on a raspberrry pi). So if you have enough hardware and already mastodon, I don't see why you would go for pleroma...

@arteteco

@Deeploria @arteteco Thanks for the info.

@freemo browsing through instances to find my place, this scholars/science focused one looks promising, and I see you are integrating it more in the fediverse, very cool. I'll follow how it grows with interest.