Mastodawn

Been trying a GoSocial sorta, haven't really done much, but I did start accessing it through Phanpy. Nice enough, and I love Phanpy, but I don't see anything that makes it special, from a user stand point, there's nothing to distinguish it from Mastodon, Wafrn, etc, unless I'm missing something. Sure, supposedly its supposed to be easy and lightweight to host, but if you're not hosting, that doesn't really matter, does it?

I think my big complaint about GTS is the same I have for Snak, Hollos and all the other single user/small number of user AP software, they don't offer any features you can't get somewhere else. Look over at Friendica for what you could offer, Diaspora sharing in addition to AP, or maybe a built in RSS feed reader, or both. Or Wafrn and built in Bluesky support. Or to be original, maybe a queue function, perfect for flood control and enforcing good neighbor behavior.

@hollo

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Gary

@chuff I think you’ve nailed gotosocial’s USP there: it’s /intended/ to be very similar to mastodon for the end user, but it’s *vastly* more simple and less resource hungry to host for relatively small numbers of users.

I think the devs have done an amazing job.

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Chuff² 2d ago

@daj @WiteWulf

Oh definitely, my compliments to the cooks, its a great product, its just that outside of hosting it didn't seem like there was much else to it until @daj corrected me. Still not the product for me, but definitely can see the appeal, the features he named are found in Pleroma, but I think GTS feels like a better product.