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Does someone have a list of various ActivityPub/Mastodon-alike projects and their differences? I know there's Mastodon proper, then Pleroma which is much less

Does someone have a list of various ActivityPub/Mastodon-alike projects and their differences? I know there's Mastodon proper, then Pleroma which is much less demanding on the hosting server, and then this Misskey which have full support for emoji reactions? Would be interesting to see which project have the most velocity and their various tradeoffs, IMO.

lf-non 4y ago
https://fediverse.party/ https://fediverse.party/ tracks various fediverse related projects.
lhl 4y ago
I did an informal review for myself when deciding on what to run a couple months ago (I ended up going w/ https://akkoma.social/ https://akkoma.social/, a Pleroma fork over the Misskey variants): https://mostlyobvious.org/?link=/Reference%2FSoftware%2FFediverse%2FMigrating%20to%20Your%20Own%20Fediverse%20Instance#What_other_options_are_there https://mostlyobvious.org/?link=/Reference%2FSoftware%2FFedi...? There are two other (to me) interesting newer projects (that probably aren't quite ready for primetime) - https://gotosocial.org/ https://gotosocial.org/ (written in Go of course), and Takahē https://jointakahe.org/ https://jointakahe.org/ , a Python project - both aim for Mastodon API client support, which feels like a must since it allows you to use all the various 3rd party Mastodon clients.
- rcarmo 4y ago
  I’m running (and debugging) Takahe and it is _really_ solid (although obviously still missing a lot of features). I have two domains on it and am asking friends to join and test, and it works great on very limited CPU resources thanks to its back-end processing strategy. Since it’s Django-based, contributing and debugging is accessible to an enormous amount of people (unlike the Pleroma variants, which I also tested but found quite demanding resource-wise). Here are my notes: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/12/21/0900 https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/12/21/0900
grishka 4y ago
I'm building an ActivityPub thing of my own: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen It's not quite ready for mainstream use just yet, but I'm getting there. The next update will improve moderation tools by a lot. One after that will, at last, add private messages.
- mariusor 4y ago
  Hey Grishka, are there any instances of smithereen out there outside your test one?
  - grishka 4y ago
    There's a personal one run by one of my ex-VK colleagues. I don't know about any other ones.
riffic 4y ago
cloudflare just launched one too, wildebeest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34350897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34350897
- rcarmo 4y ago
  It does require you to buy into their ecosystem wholesale, but it has sparks of brilliance in the approach. I was thinking about doing something similar with lambdas/Azure Functions and a KV store, but they just happen to have the right building blocks all lined up.
input_sh 4y ago
Quoting my comment from yesterday, these ones extend beyond microblogging: > From top of my head, there are more extensive lists out there: Pixelfed (Instagram alternative), Peertube (YouTube alternative), Pleroma (another Twitter-like microblog), Bookwyrm (Goodreads alternative), Funkwhale (like a mashup between Soundcloud and a podcast host), Owncast (Twitch alternative), Mobilizon (event organizing), lemmy (reddit alternative)... > They're all rather tiny and unpolished, having even less resources to work with than Mastodon, but you should be able to follow a user on any of them from Mastodon. At least in theory, haven't tried with all of them.

lf-non 4y ago

https://fediverse.party/ https://fediverse.party/ tracks various fediverse related projects.

lhl 4y ago

I did an informal review for myself when deciding on what to run a couple months ago (I ended up going w/ https://akkoma.social/ https://akkoma.social/, a Pleroma fork over the Misskey variants): https://mostlyobvious.org/?link=/Reference%2FSoftware%2FFediverse%2FMigrating%20to%20Your%20Own%20Fediverse%20Instance#What_other_options_are_there https://mostlyobvious.org/?link=/Reference%2FSoftware%2FFedi...? There are two other (to me) interesting newer projects (that probably aren't quite ready for primetime) - https://gotosocial.org/ https://gotosocial.org/ (written in Go of course), and Takahē https://jointakahe.org/ https://jointakahe.org/ , a Python project - both aim for Mastodon API client support, which feels like a must since it allows you to use all the various 3rd party Mastodon clients.

rcarmo 4y ago
I’m running (and debugging) Takahe and it is _really_ solid (although obviously still missing a lot of features). I have two domains on it and am asking friends to join and test, and it works great on very limited CPU resources thanks to its back-end processing strategy. Since it’s Django-based, contributing and debugging is accessible to an enormous amount of people (unlike the Pleroma variants, which I also tested but found quite demanding resource-wise). Here are my notes: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/12/21/0900 https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/12/21/0900

grishka 4y ago

I'm building an ActivityPub thing of my own: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen It's not quite ready for mainstream use just yet, but I'm getting there. The next update will improve moderation tools by a lot. One after that will, at last, add private messages.

mariusor 4y ago
Hey Grishka, are there any instances of smithereen out there outside your test one?
- grishka 4y ago
  There's a personal one run by one of my ex-VK colleagues. I don't know about any other ones.

riffic 4y ago

cloudflare just launched one too, wildebeest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34350897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34350897

rcarmo 4y ago
It does require you to buy into their ecosystem wholesale, but it has sparks of brilliance in the approach. I was thinking about doing something similar with lambdas/Azure Functions and a KV store, but they just happen to have the right building blocks all lined up.

input_sh 4y ago

Quoting my comment from yesterday, these ones extend beyond microblogging: > From top of my head, there are more extensive lists out there: Pixelfed (Instagram alternative), Peertube (YouTube alternative), Pleroma (another Twitter-like microblog), Bookwyrm (Goodreads alternative), Funkwhale (like a mashup between Soundcloud and a podcast host), Owncast (Twitch alternative), Mobilizon (event organizing), lemmy (reddit alternative)... > They're all rather tiny and unpolished, having even less resources to work with than Mastodon, but you should be able to follow a user on any of them from Mastodon. At least in theory, haven't tried with all of them.