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Originally it was supposed to be ActivityPub based, but recently they posted something about it being for XMPP, Matrix and IRC as well 🤷‍♂️ Maybe they decided to fork Pidgin 😂

IMHO Sup. isn’t going to happen. They will have their hands more than full with Pixelfed’s new popularity and maybe Loops.

No ActivityPub federation, but otherwise yes.

I don’t remember exactly. Maybe a year or so.

The same was true for the official pixelfed app and the source was eventually released. Not great, but I think it is fair not to assume malice in this case.

Its nice as a place to talk to mostly like-minded people and avoid the increasingly common AI bot slop, but it is too spread out internationally to be a useful communication tool for organizing local activities, which is a bit sad.

2$ a month is bad advise as payment processing fees will eat too much of it. Costs are also usually much less than 2$/month/member, but that is assuming the admin labor is provided by volunteers.

Not bad, but it is a bit limiting with Stripe only and the Stripe ToS forbidding a lot of common usecases.

Sharkey includes many improvements that never made it back into the Misskey codebase and Misskey’s documentation and community support is mostly in Japanese.

Apparently for many US americans Mastodon is somewhat pronounced like Mastadon. But I also find this misspelling irritating.

I would rather suggest the Akkoma (=pleroma) and Sharkey (=Misskey) forks for a series of reasons.

They interact with each other fine, no real problems there, except Mastodon users can’t see custom emoji reactions and such.

Mastodon apps generally work fine with Akkoma, for Sharkey it is a bit less smooth and also a lot of the extra functionality of Sharkey is obviously not supported in Mastodon apps.

The tide lifts all the boats… there is also a noticeable uptick in Lemmy registrations, at least here on our instance.

XMPP basically uses the same end to end encyption method as Signal, but due to it not being mandatory some things are easier but come with the footgun that you can accidentially disable it (but it is enabled by default in most modern xmpp clients).

Otherwise: since XMPP federates more servers can theoretically see some metadata, but since most servers are small and community run there isn’t a single big target like with Signal where you can siphon off all the metadata. So you can make arguments for both. XMPP: more meta data but decentralized, Signal: less metadata but all in one place.

Security researchers always look at a specific thing, usually the encryption only. The message encryption of Signal is great, the problem is all the rest of it that never gets scrutinized that closely.

If you are looking for open-source end to end encrypted photo storage then Ente or Stingle are what you want.

I have been considering to use this: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/connect/apps/#peertube

Might make it easier to use an external server as a kind of CDN as well.

Hmm, not sure how they did it. To my knowledge that is only an upcoming feature although now that I think about it I somewhat remember that it was already partially available in the current release backend but not exposed in the UI or so 🤔

Edit: indeed: https://mv-gh.github.io/lemmy_openapi_spec/#tag/Admin

Mastodon etc. doesn’t really differentiate between posts and comments. So imagine your Lemmy feed having all comments from all communities you are subscribed to just there scrolling through and no real way to know what they even comment on without clicking though to try to find the originally referenced message.

In addition Mastodon has no concept of consistent threads, so basically every person sees something different and you can’t really comment on comments without it getting completely confusing.

On Lemmy you would also need a separate view for microblogs. You can see on Mbin how that would work.

No, have a proper separate view that only shows group posts like on Lemmy. Friendica and Mbin does it like that and Pixelfed has teased the same for a long time now. No work-arounds and semi-working hacks like now when you try to engage with a Lemmy community from Mastodon. But that you even ask how should show you just how incompatible these two social media concepts are. Basically you need two entirely different interfaces for each.

IMHO better would be the reverse: proper group support in Mastodon, Pixelfed etc. But the developers of these seem to be as reluctant to implement that as the Lemmy devs are regarding user microblogging.