jade arson.
awoo@femdom.solutions
I just have the difficulty of "which server software should I choose?" because I wanna avoid Mastodon and all its forks, and I kinda want to host an Akkoma instance but then database rot is a thing and I need to stay below 100GB of disk usage-
(also, I kinda wanna try GoToSocial tbh)
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aoife is not on fedi
nbsp- akkoma: don't don't don't no back stop don't, However if you do follow my guide https://enby.space/blog/opinionated-akkoma/
- chuckya's fork of glitch's fork of mastodon supports akkoma-fe with a hack
- gotosocial is cool but doesn't support a lot quite yet
- iceshrimp.net is really promising!!! you should give it a try :>
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@awoo
Is there a reason why people avoid mastodon?
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sam is not here 
にゃん 
starshine@woem.space
that blog post is interesting. im gonnya do that immediately
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aoife is not on fedi
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jade arson.
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so, I’m currently stuck choosing between choosing either one of those:
- Akkoma (even though multiple people have been like “don’t, no, stop, avoid that!!” - sorry peeps but I’m just very used to Akkoma at this point.)
- GoToSocial (even though some features I’d like (like emoji reactions or following hashtags) are missing)
- Iceshrimp.NET (even though it feels weird to have a fedi instance software in .NET in the first place, and configuring it using .ini files feels even weirder (on top of that, the frontend seems to still be incomplete so that’s going to be fun to use on a laptop/desktop then))
It has reasons why I avoid Mastodon (I absolutely do not like the direction in which things seem to go) and its forks (which often times make things more complicated to maintain, especially glitch-soc unfortunately), as well as Misskey and its forks (which all have a (frankly speaking) bloated frontend and no Mastodon-compatible API, meaning that I can’t use most of the mobile clients out there) so yeah-
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@awoo you can use netshrimp with like, standalone masto frontend like i have chuckya frontend on masto.jeder.pl and that works quite okay
but yeah
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sam is not here にゃん
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@awoo @jeder would https://enafore.social/ be any good or is that also too simple? (it almost definitely is tbh)
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@awoo i mean like, same but that’s what I have to deal with for a longer bit
and trust me, you will either find third party web clients good or absolutely bad, so like, chuckya is pretty much what you have to use and it’s somehow heavier than misskey frontend, I have no idea why or how but it is
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everytime i hear Akkoma database rot, my eyes starts googling
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@awoo if you consider hosting Fedi at home, be aware that it’s like DDoSing yourself :p
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jade arson.
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privateger@plasmatrap.com
@awoo@femdom.solutions i know, hahaha misskey bad, but misskey is genuinely pretty good if you dont mind the web UI
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@awoo@femdom.solutions mind being equal to liking it in this case 
id recommend mastodon-chuckya then (mastodon is still mastodon, but that makes it bearable)
id stay far away from anything pleroma/akkoma, database rot is just a pain in the ass and its hard to deal with in general
GTS was extremely unfinished and just felt bad when I tried it, maybe that changed in the meantime
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@awoo@femdom.solutions dunno how mastodon database size develops over longer periods of time, i only host this instance in prod, so I have misskey numbers only
currently its at 55GB, with 41 million posts and 6 million files in the DB after over two years of runtime
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@awoo i'm waiting for the iceshrimp net beta right now
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jade arson.
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(:therian:)Andromeda& MOVED TO CYBERPUNK.LOL
89q12@gts.thekitty.zone@awoo
Im running GTS and its great, yeah some missing features but tbh those are features that I don't use anyways
Can only recommend it
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Emma, the anxious onion
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@awoo I mean, I absolutely love Akko, obviously. Seems like the best to me, but it’s up to you ofc
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> however, the only current way to interactively add emoji to your instance is through admin-fe
Wrong, i never used admin-fe
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we started with database config and never really touched the config file (this was a terrible idea) (it almost bricked our instance when we upgraded)
aoife is not on fedi
nbspif there is a web UI built into akkoma that lets you add emoji via user authentication that isn't admin-fe do let me know and i'll link it
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lnl, nu tot 50% minder menselijk
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@awoo if web frontend is important to you i'd avoid gts, it has none (i've entirely switched to Tuba on desktop)
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aoife is not on fedi
nbspthe misskey approach of uploading them as arbitrary drive files and then linking them is . odd, yes.
to me the solution is to have a file structure much like akkoma's but without the pack.json files dictating what goes where. that should be done in db.
and also you shouldn't need to turn dbconfig on to Access Emoji. they're not even the same thing they're just grouped together in the frontend.
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we have soft paws and kiss boys. Fouck yeah