Olives @olives@qoto.org

Hmm... I'm seeing a bit of interest coming in for this.

I could have asked a slightly more nuanced question, although it still gets the job done.

All of the above is coming in now, although more anime is still ahead, lol.

If this were Japan, I would be using "w" instead of "lol". Probably. That's the equivalent.

Someone seems to believe that people wait to change their avatars until right when they get a new follower rather than it being a synchronisation thing, lol.

I see that someone out there wants more anime content, lol. Well, you can never have too much anime content, lol.

Since people seem quiet at times here, unless someone makes it a poll, let's make it a poll:

What do you want me to post more of?

I'm seeing... Plenty of follower counts going down on X. That is usually indicative of people leaving.

The tricky thing with highly opinionated projects I think, whether Pleroma on usability or Mastodon on functionality, is that it's not like you can just open a pull request and solve that problem in one go.

Otherwise, if it's just lacking this or that, that is easy to solve.

That's another problem I think.

The software which are most widely used for larger instances are also ironically less suited for doing so due to performance issues.

Meanwhile, more performant stacks are instead used for small or even single user instances, which largely moots the point of using that stack in the first place.

Go To Social: From what I've seen of it in the wild, it behaves unpredictably on the fediverse and is very buggy in federation.

It also throws out Go's potential performance advantages by just using it as another tool for single user instances.

It also looks very alpha.

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.

https://wedistribute.org/2018/04/blushy-crushy-fediverse-idol-a-chat-with-lain-about-pleroma/
What kind of struck me about Pleroma is that in one interview, the lead developer was kind of proud of it's poorer usability (as it'll presumably keep the corporate riffraff away).

Various things I noticed while doing a round of research.

From what I can tell, Pleroma is likely a reference to Ancient Greek. There, it means fullness or completeness.

In more modern times, it is more used in reference to God.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/tornado-cash-civil-decision-limits-reach-treasury-departments-actions-while I'm generally in favor of a strong First Amendment, so I'll support the EFF here.

I used to post *a lot* more human rights content and not really that much anime content, lol.

I changed that a bit for a few reasons, one is that I want to spread a bit more positivity.