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Pleroma 2.1

66 points by mewmewblobcat 6y ago

mikece 6y ago
E2E encrypted DMs will be quite a coup! Will Pleroma be the only OpenSocial project supporting that?
- m_b 6y ago
  It’s coming to Mastodon too: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/13820 https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/13820
AbuAssar 6y ago
“Pleroma is a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols. It is compatible with GNU Social, Mastodon, and many other ActivityPub implementations. The project consists of several components: Pleroma is the server implementation, and comes bundled with PleromaFE, the default frontend. Other useful utilities are also provided, such as an ActivityPub relay.”
captainmuon 6y ago
It seems all the fediverse apps are modeled on Twitter or Social Media - everybody posts stuff and then you consume a feed. To be honest, it feels like work for me to check Facebook or Twitter nowadays. I wish there was an app more like MySpace or early Facebook [1]. You have your own page that you carefully curate, list your hobbies and favorite bands and whatever, and you can connect with friends and browse their pages and maybe leave a message there. I think this other model would also get around the problem of network effects - a landing page or personal homepage works even if you don't have connections yet. -- [1] Or, if you went to university in Germany in the 2000s, the learning platform Stud.IP. My classmates and I spent countless hours in the forums, decorating our user pages, and chatting. And it was heavily gamified, you got XP for every action and we were all trying to level up. I still think of this as close to an ideal "social network" app.
- sascha_sl 6y ago
  I see particularly young people rebuilding that out of a patchwork of twitter and services like cardd.
abdulmuhaimin 6y ago
Never heard of this project until now, and Im surprised its actually built on top of Elixir/Phoenix. For such a good project, its not mentioned much in the community
- mxuribe 6y ago
  > ...its not mentioned much in the community Was your reference to the Hacker News community? Because it is well known in the fediverse.
  - aidenn0 6y ago
    I read it as the BEAM or elixer community
JChase2 6y ago
We set up a pleroma instance on OpenBSD a while back. It works pretty well. Kind of a pain to get set up due to version mismatches of elixir and Erlang and what not, but it wasn't too painful. I imagine it's a lot easier on a supported distro like Debian. Can't wait to upgrade for the new chat system. Hopefully that goes well on OpenBSD.
fsiefken 6y ago
This looks very good. OStatus and ActivityPub, I2P interface, RSS feed. It would be an ideal blog platform, if I could feed it markdown and if it can be themed. Unfortunately there is this character limit of say 500 (to be compatible with Mastodon) which is a bit minimal for blogging (well, i do like the microblog concept). How much would one minimally need for a complex thought? 500? 1024c? Does anyone know what the usual post limit is on the popular Pleroma instances? I was thinking of migrating to a static blog with Hugo or Nanoc, but I really like a federated presence like this: https://pleroma.paritybit.ca/jbauer https://pleroma.paritybit.ca/jbauer Edith Reisen wrote a good Pleroma overview: https://edith.reisen/computers/misc/pleroma.html https://edith.reisen/computers/misc/pleroma.html
- barrucadu 6y ago
  The default character limit is 5000, I believe, and it supports Markdown.
chaz6 6y ago
I am curious to know why their GitLab instance reports the size of the repository as 336.6 GB of storage when there are only 286.6 MB of files.
- danmur 6y ago
  Maybe someone accidentally checked in the PSDs
moralestapia 6y ago
If someone involved in the project sees this, * I would really like to install PleromaFE and use it * But your download links are broken ... come on

Pleroma 2.1

66 points by mewmewblobcat 6y ago

mikece 6y ago

E2E encrypted DMs will be quite a coup! Will Pleroma be the only OpenSocial project supporting that?

m_b 6y ago
It’s coming to Mastodon too: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/13820 https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/13820

AbuAssar 6y ago

“Pleroma is a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols. It is compatible with GNU Social, Mastodon, and many other ActivityPub implementations. The project consists of several components: Pleroma is the server implementation, and comes bundled with PleromaFE, the default frontend. Other useful utilities are also provided, such as an ActivityPub relay.”

captainmuon 6y ago

It seems all the fediverse apps are modeled on Twitter or Social Media - everybody posts stuff and then you consume a feed. To be honest, it feels like work for me to check Facebook or Twitter nowadays. I wish there was an app more like MySpace or early Facebook [1]. You have your own page that you carefully curate, list your hobbies and favorite bands and whatever, and you can connect with friends and browse their pages and maybe leave a message there. I think this other model would also get around the problem of network effects - a landing page or personal homepage works even if you don't have connections yet. -- [1] Or, if you went to university in Germany in the 2000s, the learning platform Stud.IP. My classmates and I spent countless hours in the forums, decorating our user pages, and chatting. And it was heavily gamified, you got XP for every action and we were all trying to level up. I still think of this as close to an ideal "social network" app.

sascha_sl 6y ago
I see particularly young people rebuilding that out of a patchwork of twitter and services like cardd.

abdulmuhaimin 6y ago

Never heard of this project until now, and Im surprised its actually built on top of Elixir/Phoenix. For such a good project, its not mentioned much in the community

mxuribe 6y ago
> ...its not mentioned much in the community Was your reference to the Hacker News community? Because it is well known in the fediverse.
- aidenn0 6y ago
  I read it as the BEAM or elixer community

JChase2 6y ago

We set up a pleroma instance on OpenBSD a while back. It works pretty well. Kind of a pain to get set up due to version mismatches of elixir and Erlang and what not, but it wasn't too painful. I imagine it's a lot easier on a supported distro like Debian. Can't wait to upgrade for the new chat system. Hopefully that goes well on OpenBSD.

fsiefken 6y ago

This looks very good. OStatus and ActivityPub, I2P interface, RSS feed. It would be an ideal blog platform, if I could feed it markdown and if it can be themed. Unfortunately there is this character limit of say 500 (to be compatible with Mastodon) which is a bit minimal for blogging (well, i do like the microblog concept). How much would one minimally need for a complex thought? 500? 1024c? Does anyone know what the usual post limit is on the popular Pleroma instances? I was thinking of migrating to a static blog with Hugo or Nanoc, but I really like a federated presence like this: https://pleroma.paritybit.ca/jbauer https://pleroma.paritybit.ca/jbauer Edith Reisen wrote a good Pleroma overview: https://edith.reisen/computers/misc/pleroma.html https://edith.reisen/computers/misc/pleroma.html

barrucadu 6y ago
The default character limit is 5000, I believe, and it supports Markdown.

chaz6 6y ago

I am curious to know why their GitLab instance reports the size of the repository as 336.6 GB of storage when there are only 286.6 MB of files.

danmur 6y ago
Maybe someone accidentally checked in the PSDs

moralestapia 6y ago

If someone involved in the project sees this, * I would really like to install PleromaFE and use it * But your download links are broken ... come on