yonder

📢 Account move notification

Almost everything is ready to move my social home to @fabio (@fabio@manganiello.tech).

The new account runs on #Yonder.

Yonder is a social platform I’ve been working on for a while, and I’ll soon write about it more in detail.

It’s an #ActivityPub server written in #Rust and fully compatible with Mastodon and Pleroma/Akkoma, plus with other #Indieweb features I like (support for #Webmentions, and #OpenID coming soon).

Plus it implements features that I’ve wanted in those platforms for a while but I’ve struggled to get merged.

If you follow me here, you can hit the follow button on the new account (and if you don’t, don’t worry, my followers will be migrated at some point between today and tomorrow).

Ehm ehm is this thing on? 🎤

This is my first post from my new instance, manganiello.tech.

I created a new instance for two reasons:

1. manganiello.eu was supposed to be a temporary domain, and I'd rather keep my contacts (ActivityPub, Matrix, XMPP) all on the manganiello.tech domain.
2. The new instance runs #Yonder.

Yonder (Github mirror) is an #ActivityPub server I built in #Rust.

It's a Mastodon clone with all the features I like from Akkoma (Markdown posts, customizable number of status characters, custom frontends, emoji reactions, the clean Soapbox interface...), plus some features that were lacking in both and I've wanted for a while (Webmentions/IndieWeb connectors, consistent management of drafts, direct messages grouped as conversations, some actually decent and blog-like rendering of Markdown content, fetch of remote followers and posts with counters properly in sync, automatic fetch of missing posts from the remote instance [WIP], better Threadiverse integration [WIP]...).

Rather than trying to port either to Mastodon or Akkoma the features I liked and close all the gaps, while ending up maintaining my own forks for too long, I decided to start from a clean state and own my own ActivityPub codebase.

I will test things a bit on my new home and eventually move everything from my current handle, @fabio.

Yonder is, of course, fully FOSS and released under AGPL 3.

It's probably mature enough to be run for some personal instance experiments, but it's still under heavy development (docker-compose out-of-the-box stack and AUR packages coming soon).