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If anything is going to strangle the usability of federated social networking, it's petty or indiscriminate server blocking. I just saw a popular tips account s
by Zak 4y ago
If anything is going to strangle the usability of federated social networking, it's petty or indiscriminate server blocking. I just saw a popular tips account suggesting that everyone running a smaller server should block mastodon.social if it grew over 50% of the active userbase.
Pleroma was the first ActivityPub server I tried running for myself. I picked it for technical reasons. I switched from it to Mastodon for UX reasons. I don't know anything about the politics of either lead developer, but I think both have crappy design decisions around how they display images by default.
Of course, block anything you want on your single-user server, and any persistent sources of abusive behavior if you're running servers for other people.
- FalconSensei 4y agoI was just adding some extra information/personal experience to the message I was replying to - and mentioning that yeah, 6 years ago, that was my experience - that some folks block based on disagreements with developers, but others, based on their experiences with users. Same that happens in a different degree and reasons, with misskey But you seem to want to just confirm stereotypes and proclaim you used Pleroma and then be rude and put words in my mouth, so just go ahead.
- Zak 4y agoI probably should have written a separate reply to the other comment that talked more about the politics of the developers. The fact that it was 6 years ago is relevant. It may well have been the case that Pleroma was an extremely strong indicator of toxicity then, but it's probably not fair to assume that today.