Avdi GrimmOct 13, 2024
The current chaos in WordPress caused by Matt seems like a good time to remind folks that the Mastodon “community” websites and trademarks are 100% owned by one man, despite pleas from current and former project members to make Mastodon a foundation with a board.
Show threadAroop RoelofsOct 13, 2024

@avdi Welll... Mastodon is at least built on standards that are implemented elsewhere, so it's a lot easier to move when shit hits the fan.
I think, at worst, you'd lose userdata (because database schemes might not be compatible) but you can probably write things to make that migration doable...

In the case of WordPress, well... If you wanna move to a "competing implementation"... There aren't really any "other WordPresses", they are completely different systems (themes and plugins won't be compatible) so you'll need to rebuild pretty much everything from scratch.
Sure, you can fork WP but now you've also added additional development to do.

Show threadAvdi Grimm
Speaking as someone who actually DID move off of Mastodon, have fun with that theory.
Oct 14, 2024 at 8:19pmWeb
Show threadwbpeckhamOct 14, 2024

@avdi Theory? Have you looked at Rustodon? Have a glance here: https://antonio.is/2024/08/23/activitypub-microblogging-alternatives/

If you're a decent coder and almost anything enough to create a blog activity pub is so simple a protocol that it's not hard to build that into it. What I'm saying is, if you don't like any of the 52 that are already out there, you can write your own. It's open standards.

Activitypub microblogging alternatives

There are a few alternatives to Mastodon in the fediverse. You can easily find some list in websites like Join the fediverse, Fediverse Party and Fediverse Info. But I want to list someone that I found interesting: misskey - Built with typescript has a really cool Reactions feature. Pleroma - Supports both ActivityPub and OStatus. It is developed in Elixir. Firefish - This is a fork of Misskey. Go to social - Very lightweight.

Show threadAvdi GrimmOct 15, 2024
I literally migrated my fediverse presence off of Mastodon. Why are you asking me what I’ve “looked at”?