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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 statuse

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/

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/