A few observations:

Mastodon: Hard to install, very resource intensive, very opinionated (i.e. over asinine things like character limits).

Pleroma: Poor usability. More functional.

Misskey: Sort of okay. It has some interesting features and the usability looks alright? The way it handles visibility is different than other systems leading to unpredictable results.

I have to look deeper into this implementation.

Every time I hear of them, it has to do with, ironically, complaining about NSFW content on the fediverse (is it really that surprising that someone will use it for this?).

I also have potential concerns about language / cultural barriers here.

@olives What about Firefish? It's a fork of Misskey/Calckey, and no language barriers from what I see.

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@trinsec I've got to look further into that one. It looks very recent.

When I looked into Calckey briefly a few months ago, I discovered the leader seemed to block instances over petty beefs with admins.

Due to this, I wasn't really motivated to look into it, as it seemed like the sort of high school drama which we could all do with less of.

@trinsec Now, this might be more of an opinionated quip, but I'm not really a fan of Misskey's analytics type features, lol.

So, someone did something at x and displaying that for all to see on their profile. I like the extra bit of privacy that withholding that bit of data has.

@olives Well, yeah, firefish.social has blocked qoto.org, indeed. But the software still looks interesting to me. It's got a few features which isn't in Mastodon, and which Qoto touts as 'unique features'. ;)

@trinsec Looking at it, it does seem like an interesting bit of software (although, I haven't dug very deep into it yet).

In fairness, quite a few software have features which aren't in Mastodon, hehe.

@olives Fair. ;) But this one seems to tout a few more features than usual. Anyway, I'm probably going to check this one out for myself. Firefish.social itself didn't give me a good impression as it's slow as heck, but maybe it'll be snappier on our own server.

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