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You know, I think there are a lot of people who completely miss one important aspect of Mastodon: while it's open source, it's EXTREMELY Linux-centric. While pe
by johnklos 4y ago
You know, I think there are a lot of people who completely miss one important aspect of Mastodon: while it's open source, it's EXTREMELY Linux-centric. While people have gotten it running on other platforms, it's fraught with problems and assumptions.
Then add that Ruby on Rails has a history of breaking when trying to update to keep ahead of security vulnerabilities, and we may expect to see some big security issues when something is found that's exploitable and updating breaks things, and everyone is sitting around waiting for the Mastodon people and/or the Docker image makers to update things properly.
Mastodon would be improved by spending more energy making fewer assumptions about the underlying OS and being less dependent on specific versions of underlying Ruby components.
- zimpenfish 4y ago> Mastodon [...] fraught with problems and assumptions Many other servers are available - Akkoma (Elixir), Honk (Go), GoToSocial (Go), Takahe (Python), Ktistec (Crystal), snac2 (C), ... I should expect by this time next month, you can probably add another 3-5 to that list.
- claudiawerner 4y agoAnd Pleroma too, which somehow missed your list despite being the second most popular AP server...
- zimpenfish 4y agoWell, Akkoma is a fork of Pleroma with a more active and user-friendly focus on development. Pleroma seemed to have stalled and been largely dormant not long ago.
- johnklos 4y agoIndeed. I'm running Akkoma, and it was straightforward to set up and get running, unlike Mastodon.