As "woke" as Mastodon is, they're getting those sweet, sweet, EU funding bucks (Eunomia), and Soapbox has the "autist with a vision" behind it. What does Pleroma have? It has forks that don't go far and big instances like FSE or SPC running older versions of the code, or instances choosing to run on Soapbox-FE/BE.
As much as the Pleroma guys hate Alex, they're not going to be able to do fuckall because whining on the fedi isn't the same as making software people use/want to use. Sure poa.st is the biggest soapbox instance and that's not kosher, but neither is Pawoo being the biggest/one of the biggest fedi instances. What does Pawoo run on? Mastodon. That doesn't stop EU funding.
Eventually, less politically oriented websites will start running Soapbox and not care about some intricate drama.
@PhenomX6 I'm getting tempted to fork GNU Social, and add in the good features Pleroma and Misskey have introduced, but without the reliance on JS. But if I do, I'll perhaps keep it to just a single developer project.
@Tadano@PhenomX6@ryo I'm spending most of my time training for me new job. I know Golang but I'm still new to the language. I also need to learn more about network programming and distributed networking is much harder than the simple client-server model.
@anornymorse Ubuntu is pozzed to shit these days, try installing server it was designed for 12 year olds spinning up their skid VPSes and VPSes to host shitty "homepages" that link to social media platforms.
Oh I forgot: the other thing with why the Pleroma devs whining won't do shit has to do with how Lennartware got big.
Lennartware got big because the big distros adopted it and it had much more work going on for it than non-Lennartware init systems (for example) did. Ditto with Pleroma and Soapbox.
Lennartware was funded by Red Hat, and politically pushed into other distros. Half the Debian steering committee resigned when it was forced through in Debian. Ubuntu resisted until Arch adopted systemd and Shuttleworth abandoned the battlefront.
@ryo@anornymorse Nah just javashit bloat these days or stupid gimmicks for just a list of links when you could do the same with a basic website.
I looked at one guy I haven't talked to in years and well, his website is literally some autistic "command line" shit. Oh cool you're trying to flex your coding skills, but that's nothing compared to say, showing people a demo you've written for an old computer and all.
@PhenomX6@anornymorse I think installing WordPress for this purpose is even more of an overkill than just a static HTML page with lots of JS bloat.
I used to make websites for doctors, dentists, and other medical-related profession people. They all wanted to have a WordPress site so that "they can constantly update it themselves". As it turned out, literally nobody touched their own websites in many years, and whenever they want to change something, they just ask me to change it (and it's usually just minor stuff too), so I simply converted their websites to just static HTML and CSS.
And I bet none of them don't even bother looking at their websites at all either, the big amount of WordPress soytes on 1 VPS have resulted in downtime many times, and nobody ever complained even after the server was down for 4 days. After converting them all to HTML and CSS, the same server never experienced downtime ever again.
@ryo@anornymorse Why the fuck do people use Wordpress in ways it's not intended to be used for? Wordpress should stick to being used for news sites and the like.
@PhenomX6@anornymorse I know, it's more because they wanted it, and didn't let me make it the way I wanted. But after their soytes were up and running, they all of the sudden didn't seem to care anymore what's running in the background...
@ryo@anornymorse That sounds about right with boomers and other tech-illiterate demographics. They know the buzzwords, they saw it on the TV/magazine/MSN.com homepage/other "legacy" media and they want to be cool like the other guys. Chances are they're the type who sees you as a tech wizard for knowing anything about technology.