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Ok, might not be leaving


So I might be re-focusing here, Wafrn is getting on my nerves. Its not that I don't like it, @gabboman the wafrn dev has done a great job, but I don't like being forced to be linked to Bluesky. Since I disconnected from it I get error message when trying to like, re-share or comment (I think its all of them) on random posts, not just Bluesky or Wafrn, but randomly anything, mastodon.social posts sometimes will throw an error for example.

And then there's the problem with links to accounts, there's two, one in the profile and another at the bottom of the timeline to go to the user's actual page rather than filtered through my instance. Its a minor problem, but especially on .social domains the bottom one substitutes a number for the user and doesn't work.

Sure, there's features it lacks that I'd like, and if'n someone came along and made something akin to Mastodon/Pleroma/Wafrn/et al with those would be awesome, but I can live with what it has.

I am giving GoToSocial a shot, if'n I can get time to really play with it, but at first glance I can't say I'm impressed by it, there's no obvious additions or improvements to it over the other choices, and the lack of a front end means that I'm using basically the same interface as Mastodon, so it doesn't look nor feel any different.

#WAFRN-Problem #wafrn #gotosocial #Fediverse #socialmedia

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in reply to 🌴 Seph πŸ’­ πŸ‘Ύ

Just my two cents on GoToSocial. I really loved it when I used to be heavily active on fedi, but its promises of being "lightweight" are somewhat… incorrect. While that's true, it eventually chews through I/O like its no-one's business. Suppose it you keep to a small circle it probably won't be that bad, but letting it run wild federating with a huge amount of servers really chokes it.
in reply to gabboman the wafrn dev

Ours was connected to Postgres. I must point out our GTS server was federating with an insane amount of servers (like, getting way past 10k+). While that probably wasn't within its usecase, it was entirely the reason I stopped self-hosting fedi in the end: I'd already obliterated our self-hosted Mastodon instance, and I just could not be bothered with doing yet-another-migration-and-starting-afresh-again.
in reply to Ducky πŸ¦†πŸ‡Ό

@Ducky πŸ¦†πŸ‡Ό @gabboman the wafrn dev Yeah, that was its one claim to fame that I could see, and if'n you're just doing a one user, there's lots of alternatives, though my pet peeve with those is mostly that they're all identical in features with the only difference being what programming language they're in.


More Fediverse stuff


Yeah, I know, seems to be every day I post about my misadventures with Fediverse software, right? Seriously though, somethings are moving really fast...

#holos just released 17-1, that's like five versions in less than a month, and Federation finally works, yay... And we seem to have a new problem, I seem to have followed a few new people without following them, that's a weird new glitch @Holos Social Still, it otherwise works great, extremely fast to update, in fact the biggest problem is with my phone which seems to go to sleep when the screen goes off, and all notifications stop, obviously a problem here. Beyond that, its really me, while I do the occasional message from my phone, I'm an old grey muzzle, and prefer to leave the net on my computer, so I don't think I'll be sticking around, maybe to the end of the month, maybe less, but if'n you're the type that does most things from your phone, give this one a look, its a really neat project, a really good alternative to Mastodon.

#Loops , maybe it'll work, I really wish it would.

#wafrn now this one, this one I'm really in love with. Sure, there's a few features I wish it had, and unless I can find a way other than hashtags to sort my content, it won't replace this place completely, but it could very easily become my main and replace my #Mastodon . Honestly I think it might kill #diaspora , don't get me wrong, I love Diaspora, but I think the lack of #ActivityPub has done it no favors, and Wafrn may be the first viable replacement for it. Either way, for those not familiar with it, its basically the Fediverse's answer to Tumblr, and while it doesn't look quite the same, it looks quite nice, and has some fun features including the ability to bite people.

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in reply to 🌴 Seph πŸ’­ πŸ‘Ύ

the software has that as a safety measure on open instances because i dont want my software to be used for harrasment.

also reminder, VPNs are security snakeoil.

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