IMHO #Mastodon is the least user friendly and has the fewest featues, except maybe for #Honk but it specifically has a goal of having near 0 features, always purple, and always stable. Try out https://fe.soapbox.pub and you log in with your mastodon account!
@seanking There's no lie in what he said tho, the #Pleroma and #Akkoma devs have been intentionally hostile to @alex out of pure intolerance and it had been a nightmare for him to deal with them.
Frankly I would say that he and #Soapbox and #rebased are better without them, but #Pleroma isn't necessarily in the most vibrant state rn
@bot@alex I hope I'm describing this correctly, but it's a cross between an API and a bridge. It lets you log into #nostr via #Fediverse frontends like #Soapbox or the #Mastodon app.
It definitely has some kinks though. Replies don't work, posts made via #Ditto don't show up everywhere, etc. But it's still very new.
Debating what I do as part of my #redditmigration. I've gotten on #tildes which I'm quite enjoying, and I'd like to #selfhost a #kbin single-user instance as my frontend for a #Reddit style UI, but then I'd have **two** #fediverse handles! Same if I join a nice kbin instance. It'd be great to have my replies on threads to be the same handle as here. I know I can follow kbin/#lemmy instances from my #soapbox instance but trying to cram a link aggregator style feed into a microblog style feed isn't going to work well. Not even sure if self-hosting kbin and trying to federate myself is going to work as well as this instance has.
@feditips - Any sage advice for the cleanest path forward for those wanting to do both?
@kjr It used to be called #Soapbox before @alex split off the frontend from the backend. It's based on #Pleroma but has quote posts and other features.
@kjr@alex Yep! So #Soapbox was originally a fork of #Gab which was a fork of #Mastodon. It eventually was rebuilt by forking #Pleroma and retaining the existing #Soapbox frontend, and now the #rebased backend and #Soapbox (the frontend) have been split apart, with (IIRC) the intention of #Soapbox being a multipurpose frontend that can be used with different #Fediverse software, and #rebased being a lightweight #Fediverse backend software.
You can visit fe.soapbox.pub to check out #Soapbox and try the software with your instance! It works quite well with #Mastodon and #Pleroma especially, I can't remember if it supports #Misskey at all.
Just thought I'd try #Soapbox from @alex out as #Hubzilla is stuck in 90s design and decidedly user-unfriendly. I'd been eyeing #Mastodon for over a year and this is so much more refined with elegant design. Anyone out there running their own instance?
I'm pretty sure that the #Fediverse is one of the first social networks I've been on that didn't ever ask me to betray any of the people in my address book.
Yep #TruthSocial is a #Mastodon instance running #Soapbox as the FE. I think they modified the #Mastodon code to add some extra features too like quote posts.