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Mastodon adding rich text support? Sounds like they're trying to catch up to the social media platforms of yesterday. MySpace? It's funny how things go in cycle

Mastodon adding rich text support? Sounds like they're trying to catch up to the social media platforms of yesterday. MySpace? It's funny how things go in cycles. First, we had the simple text-based internet, then we added flashy graphics and animations, then we stripped it back down again with minimalism and flat design, and now we're back to wanting more visual stimulation. But hey, why not embrace the nostalgia and bring back some of those retro features? Maybe next Mastodon will add a customizable profile background with your favorite song playing in the background.

robobro 4y ago
Pleroma has had this for years.... markdown, bbcode, and limited HTML support. Pleroma has a lot of features that Mastodon doesn't, such as support for statuses of much longer than 500 chars. There's a running gag, "Pleroma does what Mastodon't." I very much respect the work gargron has done is making Fediverse a place that's more moral than Twitter and popularizing the space with "normies" ; however it is good to note that there are alternatives within the space that do what Mastodon doesn't.
- noirscape 4y ago
  Pleroma also runs on basically everything, which is another big mark in favor of it. Mastodon is a ruby on rails dinosaur, which to its credit scales as well as Ruby usually does. The disadvantage is that if you're trying to run something for yourself, you're looking at a cost that is hard to justify. Last I tried using it, without downtuning sidekiq workers, you get constant CPU pressure and ~2GB idle ram usage and that's on a low-cost VPS from Hetzner (somewhere below the 10$ mark). It also caches media like there's no tomorrow, which means that you basically need a cronjob to clear out old attachments and for 4 years straight you couldn't clean out old avatars and headers either. Pleroma by contrast uses barely any CPU when idle and it's ram usage has only rarely exceeded the 300mb mark (and only when I foolishly plugged my instance into a relay). Media caching is off by default, so it doesn't clog up your disk unless you want it to.
  - 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
    There are images for raspberry pi that you can get started with in a single click. Its nice
- citruscomputing 4y ago
  If anyone reading this is interested in Pleroma, definitely also check out the Akkoma fork -- that's what I, personally, see more people using. https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma/ https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma/
kornhole 4y ago
The fediverse has the opportunity and benefit of rebuilding social media from lessons learned of the social media platforms. They can replicate and improve the features that served users and communities and ditch those that only benefited platform operators, commercial advertisers, and state censors.
davidgerard 4y ago
They're trying to catch up to their own forks. See Eugen start talk about maybe adding quote-posts after a pile of Mastodon forks added the Treehouse fork's implementation, compatible with the MissKey and Akkoma implementations.

robobro 4y ago

Pleroma has had this for years.... markdown, bbcode, and limited HTML support. Pleroma has a lot of features that Mastodon doesn't, such as support for statuses of much longer than 500 chars. There's a running gag, "Pleroma does what Mastodon't." I very much respect the work gargron has done is making Fediverse a place that's more moral than Twitter and popularizing the space with "normies" ; however it is good to note that there are alternatives within the space that do what Mastodon doesn't.

noirscape 4y ago
Pleroma also runs on basically everything, which is another big mark in favor of it. Mastodon is a ruby on rails dinosaur, which to its credit scales as well as Ruby usually does. The disadvantage is that if you're trying to run something for yourself, you're looking at a cost that is hard to justify. Last I tried using it, without downtuning sidekiq workers, you get constant CPU pressure and ~2GB idle ram usage and that's on a low-cost VPS from Hetzner (somewhere below the 10$ mark). It also caches media like there's no tomorrow, which means that you basically need a cronjob to clear out old attachments and for 4 years straight you couldn't clean out old avatars and headers either. Pleroma by contrast uses barely any CPU when idle and it's ram usage has only rarely exceeded the 300mb mark (and only when I foolishly plugged my instance into a relay). Media caching is off by default, so it doesn't clog up your disk unless you want it to.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
  There are images for raspberry pi that you can get started with in a single click. Its nice
citruscomputing 4y ago
If anyone reading this is interested in Pleroma, definitely also check out the Akkoma fork -- that's what I, personally, see more people using. https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma/ https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma/

kornhole 4y ago

The fediverse has the opportunity and benefit of rebuilding social media from lessons learned of the social media platforms. They can replicate and improve the features that served users and communities and ditch those that only benefited platform operators, commercial advertisers, and state censors.

davidgerard 4y ago

They're trying to catch up to their own forks. See Eugen start talk about maybe adding quote-posts after a pile of Mastodon forks added the Treehouse fork's implementation, compatible with the MissKey and Akkoma implementations.