@destructatron there's always Pleroma, it's reasonably easy to set up, and works very well. If you want the latest in accessibility fixes, use the develop branch.

@storm If it has the ability to set a custom character limit and works with Semaphore without much messing around, then I'll definitely give it a look.

@destructatron it looks like you got everything figured out while I was sleeping. If you still have questions let me know and I will try to help. But first, ☕ for me.

@storm @destructatron Thanks, you've helped a lot. I'd probably still be trying to get base mastodon set up if you hadn't chipped in, and that is a process and a half. The only question I have now is, can I expose the additional configuration options for the admin FE now I've run the config. It asked if I wanted to and I left it at defaults. Can I do this without messing up the database?

@destructatron @destructatron I am actually not sure, I haven't ever done it myself, but I think this instance I chose false on as well and I have done things in the admin page and nothing broke. You could join #pleroma on irc.libera.chat and maybe someone there would know.

@storm @destructatron I might give that a try. Speaking of IRC, is there a client for Linux that's decently accessible and can be configured with SSL without too much bother? I'd like it to have SASL support otherwise I can't connect to libera.chat from behind a VPN, which is what I need to do because the college wi-fi blocks anything that's not essential. It's not a must have feature though, it would just be nice if it existed.

@destructatron @destructatron I think pidgin has those type features. I use irssi, but it's one of those things that I set up like 10 years ago and barely touch the configuration since. If I lost my config somehow, I'd be scrambling for a bit to get it back the way I like it lol. Which would you prefer, command line client or GUI?

@storm @destructatron Pidgin is fine for me, the only issue is reviewing history. I'd like to be able to review it without going into a log file of the current session because that won't dynamically update.

@destructatron @destructatron I thought you could use orca+f1-f12 to review the history?

@storm @destructatron I didn't even know that existed. So it keeps a log of the last 12 entries and lets you review them, i take it f1 is the most recent.