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   Netto Hikari (nettohikari@social.nettohikari.com)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 07:56:33 JST Netto Hikari

   When a post on Mastodon is called “toot”, what am I doing right now, when I post something from Pleroma?

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     Netto Hikari (nettohikari@social.nettohikari.com)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 07:56:24 JST Netto Hikari

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     • la bal. nalvolzipcpin.

     I think, I might call it a “pleroma” for now, then.

     The thing that just irritates me, is that everyone just refers to Mastodon and Mastodon alone. The Fediverse is much bigger than that and depending on what you’re looking for, Mastodon may not even be the right choice.

     As you probably know (because you wrote it in your bio), writing long posts is not that easy with Mastodon, so I personally think that Pleroma is superior (again, for my use case).

     Due to the Activity Pub protocol (or system, or whatever) in the background, native clients for Mastodon also work with Pleroma or other Fediverse software, yet Tusky always shows the word “toot”. This is what made me think about what it should be called on Pleroma, instead. So that’s what it is, a “pleroma”. ?

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     la bal. nalvolzipcpin. (nalvolzipcpi@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 07:56:29 JST la bal. nalvolzipcpin.

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     @NettoHikari You might want to make some slight grammatical changes (though then again, 'Pleroma' is a [possibly anglicized] derivative form anyway), but I believe you could even just call a post a 'pleroma', referring to the result of an/the act of fulfillment (Like you finished composing it and are ready to publish it, I guess?)

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     Netto Hikari (nettohikari@social.nettohikari.com)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 07:56:30 JST Netto Hikari

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     • la bal. nalvolzipcpin.

     Yes - maybe, but my smooth brain wants a simple word that is not “post”. ? ?

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     la bal. nalvolzipcpin. (nalvolzipcpi@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 07:56:31 JST la bal. nalvolzipcpin.

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     @NettoHikari 'Mastodon' refers to a genus of probosicdeans with trunks, presumably allowing them to produce an - onomatopoetically-described - 'toot'.
     'Pleroma' may either refer to a South American flower or to a theistic idea of the 'totality of divine powers' (coming from an old Greek word).
     Perhaps a name for Pleroma posts could relate to 'filling the empty', 'completing the incomplete'; the idea of fulfillment, completeness or of that which has been completed.

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     Netto Hikari (nettohikari@social.nettohikari.com)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 08:15:56 JST Netto Hikari

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     • la bal. nalvolzipcpin.

     Oh yes! I personally like to run Arch on most of my systems (desktops and also servers). I know, I know… Arch is not a server OS and “unstable”, yada, yada…

     But it just works for me.

     Ahh… I really love how few resources Pleroma uses. This is a small LXC container I run it on and it works just fine. ?

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     la bal. nalvolzipcpin. (nalvolzipcpi@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 08:15:57 JST la bal. nalvolzipcpin.

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     @NettoHikari And the fact that they officially support (in terms of documentation) more than just Debian-based Linux distros.
     Is there anything that those installation docs *don't* cover? :blobcataww:

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     Netto Hikari (nettohikari@social.nettohikari.com)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 08:15:58 JST Netto Hikari

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     • la bal. nalvolzipcpin.

     Absolutely.

     In the end, it really doesn’t matter that much, because we can see eachother’s toots, pleromas, etc. But when it comes to features, there are some big differences.

     I personally use my own Rebased (Pleroma) instance just for my family, my friends and me as some sort of client for the Fediverse, so the federation is the main part for me, which means I could be at home with Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey or whatever just fine.

     I personally prefer Pleroma and it’s forks, because it’s much lighter on resources, compared to - for example - Mastodon. Pleroma is so much easier to maintain and run, as it has far fewer moving parts.

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     la bal. nalvolzipcpin. (nalvolzipcpi@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 08:15:59 JST la bal. nalvolzipcpin.

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     @NettoHikari It can be irritating sometimes.
     And I feel like I'm really missing out on some stuff looking at https://akkoma.social/#secondary-features
     It seems to me that Mastodon is designed as more of a 'microbloggong' platform while others (say, Misskey) are more like a general platform for social interaction within a group