Song Gao 
Has any of my followers tried a Pleroma instance? Reddit seems to suggest that’s a more lightweight alternative than Mastodon that also speaks ActivityPub but looks like it doesn’t have as much traction as Mastodon yet so I wonder why.
Huh; looks like some of the Pleroma’s devs are TERFs. Bummer https://reddit.com/r/fediverse/comments/ui8tz4/_/i7c2g3v/?context=1
Sounds like it also attracts a lot of far right communities giving it a bad reputation https://www.jayeless.net/wiki/fediverse.html
Fediverse - Jayeless.net
The Fediverse refers to an ecosystem of decentralised social media servers that are largely interoperable with each other (that is, they federate) because they all adhere to a common ActivityPub protocol (some software also/instead follows other protocols, like Diaspora). The …
Dreaming of dad jazz.@songgao This is a huge bummer. I'd been playing around with it and there things I did like about it. I'll look at the fork and some of the other options in the jayeless article.
Andrey Petrov@songgao This launched me into a reading hole, TIL Tusky rick rolls and refuses to sign into some mastodon instances that don't moderate content enough https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/blob/050891ebe5f046075857798f226d7c212e37f364/app/src/main/res/values/donottranslate.xml#L158
