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