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.
@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.
@trinsec https://qoto.org/@olives/110964703864839078 Digging deep, lol.
@trinsec I see you're experimenting with it.
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.