Since #Firefish is becoming unmaintained, I need to find new fedi instance software. My choices as I understand them:
- Some similar Misskey fork such as #Sharkey, #Iceshrimp (but they're ongoing a rewrite?), something else..? Advantage is that in theory I can migrate my current instance without having to create a new fedi identity. But the risk is that the next fork will also become unmaintained due to lack of developers.
- #Akkoma. It's faster and lighter than #Mastodon, but I don't like the default UI and would use the Glitch-soc multi-column UI. I don't know if that works without issues on it, but it seems to be bundled in? Also don't know how active Akkoma is.
- Mastodon. It's apparently heavy to run (no experience), but overwhelmingly the most supported and the most likely to be maintained into the future. Downside (which Akkoma also has) is that I need to create a new fedi identity, as apparently other instances won't accept me just switching to Mastodon and keeping the same identity. That would be some hassle, especially as my old Fosstodon/GenServer.social accounts point to my current identity, which would disappear (maybe I could set up a redirect with Caddy).
- GoToSocial. This is very unknown to me, and it doesn't come with a UI?
- Something else?
Thoughts?
#SelfHosting #FediAdmins #FediMeta
@aliceif Does it have per post language switching? The changelog being in Japanese is a bit of a problem. 😅
@nicd no I don't think misskey has that post language indication thing
but neither did pleroma I think, and that's been the only other fedi software I've been on
@aliceif Oh, that's a bummer. I post in two languages and I need to tag them for my followers. I wonder if Sharkey has that? Since they have a migration guide from Firefish.
I keep forgetting to use it though since again it doesn't change anything on my end.
@susie @aliceif Firefish actually has a pretty nifty feature, where it tries to detect the language you wrote in and suggests if you've chosen the wrong option. Sometimes it suggests something silly but it's saved me a couple of times.
Okay, Sharkey does not have per post language setting yet. :( https://activitypub.software/TransFem-org/Sharkey/-/issues/253
So Sharkey is out of the running.
Personally I don't get why "features" like that can't just be silly things like a hashtag/other special command character like !english. Easy. No complicated coding issues with federation, since it is part of the message and can be parsed however the target software wants.
Users can then choose which country codes/commands to show (whitelist) in their client/front-end.
@susie @aliceif @nicd That’s what I’ve been doing since before proper tags got support in Mastodon. #lang_en for English, #lang_eo for Esperanto, etc. I still recommend people do that, since not all Fedi software supports proper tagging yet, so for some people this is the only way to filter by language.
(Admittedly multilingual support in Fedi is lacking in general and should have been less of an afterthought.)