I’d also like a larger character limit.
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I’ve been trying Firefish. I’m not sure it’s for me.
My impression of firefish that might resonate with some …
I would use firefish much more if its UI weren’t so bloated. Load times for just about anything can be intolerable. Sometimes, I know what I want to do and just want to do it snappily. Firefish/misskey etc, with all of their features UI sparkles, which I’m rather fond of generally, just get in the way sometimes.
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Thanks! Also, my experience may be out of date now (a couple of months old mostly).
One of the biggest performance issues is the blur effect in the UI. Disable that from the settings and on my current laptop it goes from “visibly laggy” to “fairly usable, even if not as performant”.
i started on techhub dot social, and they had a 1k character limit, and i recently switched to hachyderm dot io, which has a 500 limit. hachyderm seemed a little more lively and social in the “local” feeds. techhub’s local feed seemed to be a little dry and had a lot of bot activity. but not sure if my experience truly representative, i am relatively new to the fediverse in general. never had any moderation issues with either.
Are admins able to set a character limit? :O
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I’m on todon.eu
It has a 1312 character limit, which tells you a lot about the vibe of the instance, if that’s what you’re into
1312 doesn’t tell me anything
It means ACAB: “all cops are bastards.”
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It’s not the language requirement that is motivating my move (although I don’t particularly like it).
What incident?
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Yikes! Thanks for the link.
It’d be really nice if there was a github page with an overview of all the mastodon instances like the one for lemmy. Is anyone aware of such a resource?
Link to the github page in question for lemmy
I’ve been pointed to https://instances.social/
I didn’t notice any issue with Mastodon Social
Sort of related, but does anyone know if Mastadon servers require others in the server to find other instances before you see feeds from them in the All tab, like with Lemmy?
I’m thinking of getting into Mastadon and that would be a big reason to pick a bigger instance than a smaller one.
It does work that way, but Mastodon and some other microblogging software like Firefish (fka Calckey), Pleroma, etc. can also use relays to populate their federated timelines.
Oh right, I remember hearing about relays. Is that something the admin of the instance controls?
Yup! If the software supports it, instance admins can usually add relays from their control panel.
It works similarly in that regard.
Good to know!
I’d just recommend switching to Kbin or Firefish tbh
Kbin and firefish don’t quite work the way I like. Moderation is a per instance concern that’s not so easy to discern the quality of.
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I’m suspicious of .moe instances as a lot of instances I don’t want to associate with have .moe domains. I’ll take a look based on your recommendation.
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A bunch of instances that were serving up CSAM have .moe domains. Which doesn’t really mean that there’s any association between .moe and CSAM but it makes me cautious.
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