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   Hollow Cанëк (solidsanek@outerheaven.club)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 06:30:46 JST Hollow Cанëк

   • Peter Wemm
   @Notsonoble @karinjiri I believe it really depends on the pros, but mainly which cons one is fine with when it comes to picking a fedi software.
   
   If I had to talk about the fedi software alternatives:
   - Masto's fine I guess if you want the most basic choice, that leaves little to customization, but wants to go for a software that's gonna be maintained for a while (though really, all main fedi software are still maintained after many years, and that also includes pleroma and misskey, and it's not like we're in that fast-paced evolution phase Fedi had before, so most of the maintenance is just about ensuring compatibility with other software these days, along with the usual bugfixes). The downside to me, as an admin, is that, as far as I know, Masto still caches all incoming media from remote instances, which can lead to high disk space usage just for this cache. Some people also dislike the automated media conversation Masto does (I think it converts MP4s into WEBMs or something? I'm not sure, I never used Masto, but I know that's a thing)
   - Pleroma/Akkoma will have mainly the same pros and cons, so you picking one from the other really depends on the features Akkoma may have that Pleroma doesn't such as the language translation feature you mentioned (which we don't have here because I didn't want to give DeepL my credit card info). We do run Akkoma here, and honestly, I have nothing to complain about personally. The issues I face as an admin are common in both Pleroma and Akkoma (disk space issues due to the size of the DB mainly (which barely concerns you as a single user instance))
   - I'll say, consider maybe Misskey or Sharkey? Sharkey seems to be a significant improvement about the mess that Misskey can be, so it's definitely worth checking out, unless you really dislike Misskey's frontend, which is also why I closed my Misskey instance myself
   
   But as I said, if you're already on Pleroma, only change if you have a good reason to. Maintenance-wise, all fedi software barely require any maintenance as long as you don't go for an exotic setup
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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 06:51:07 JST GNU Too

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     I know GNU Social doesn't store remote media locally. The storage is only one issue. You could be legally liable if someone one of you're users follows shared child porn and it ends up on hardware you are responsible.