things i would like to see in mastodon that pleroma has been able to do for years:

react loading skeleton

@UntaggedTransmitter @ariadne there are forks but I don't know what the relationship between them and pleroma is

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

@ionizedgirl @UntaggedTransmitter akkoma is basically a hard fork at this point and exists because of this specific problem

delta :akko_bean: :verified_gay:

@[email protected] @[email protected] i can confirm, pleroma's database design is not great, i have a 1.5 year old single user akkoma instance with a 10gb database, and have known many akkoma/pleroma admins who've had to deal with the rot as it is colloquially known

pleroma/akkoma in general, has good features and ideas but its all built on top of a foundation made of sand and spaghetti, it works most of the time but you best hope there is a god to save you if you ever have to debug or fix a technical issue in the thing

admin-FE is also just kinda terrible, it works and thats the most that can be said about it, it is a pile of barely sorted settings, excluding the ones that aren't in there

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

@delta @ionizedgirl i've considered forking Pleroma before and fixing the database to use normal SQL relations to represent the data and just accepting that a universal AS2/AP server probably isn't feasible at scale

react loading skeleton

@ariadne @UntaggedTransmitter does that mean it's missing the tools you listed

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

@ionizedgirl @UntaggedTransmitter no, akkoma has the full MRF framework with all of the things i listed

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

@ionizedgirl @UntaggedTransmitter (though akkoma seems to be kinda dead anymore)

Packets From The Void

@ariadne @ionizedgirl
Akkoma existing is pretty much the whole reason I see Pleroma derived software as worth looking at. It would almost certainly be my software of choice if I was standing up a new fediverse instance at this point.

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

@UntaggedTransmitter @ionizedgirl i wouldn't bother. when i ran pleroma.site, the database broke several times, and it took *days* to rebuild it each time.

Packets From The Void

@ariadne @ionizedgirl
Sad to hear that akkoma is looking dead.

Also, I didn't know you ran pleroma.site, I had an account there for a bit!

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

@UntaggedTransmitter @ionizedgirl mastodon is pissing me off to the point that i'm likely to make my own soon. part of my reason for using mastodon was to motivate me to build something from scratch.

tusooa :arevbunhdowohop: 西风

@ariadne @delta @ionizedgirl pleroma forces all posts to pass a validation function before storing it in the db. you still only get what is supported by it though. unsupported params are dropped.

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

@tusooa @delta @ionizedgirl yes, which just makes me wonder why it still has this terrible object store design

SpaceLifeForm

@ariadne

Interesting thread.

How does Glitch-soc stack up?

cc: @jerry @paco

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

@SpaceLifeForm @jerry @paco equally deficient

Emelia 👸🏻

@ariadne rejecting content based on hashtag has been on my list to do for Mastodon, but needs this activitypub issue resolved: https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/424

This was an early attempt at this in Mastodon: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/29264

Just silently dropping the message may not be the best option, hence needing community consensus on best practices

Pac O’Lantern Hope

@ariadne @SpaceLifeForm Glitch is just a small patch to core mastodon. Mostly about UI improvements.

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

@paco @SpaceLifeForm thank you for explaining glitch to me, as somebody who uses glitch already

Pac O’Lantern Hope

@ariadne You were CCed, effectively. I was answering @SpaceLifeForm who asked the question and tagged me into the conversation. I didn’t take much care to move userids around to make it clear who I was addressing. Sorry.

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

@paco @SpaceLifeForm no worries, sorry for being snippy