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.

@timorl Have you seen https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk ?

@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?