Ivory is getting a warm welcome on Mastodon, but also this open source iOS app for Mastodon got some thumbs up : https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp

Thanks all for the replies (I see one comment here on this instance, but twelve when I look at lemmy.ml). Nice to see more Friendica here!

Yes, maybe. Could depend on your expectations though. As far as I am concerned Lemmy is a content article reader, while Mastodon (and Pleroma, Akkoma) are for me in general be more about connecting with people and organizations and sometimes following activities of friends.

They also send Delete messages to any server they know about, even if that server isn’t an AP server and has no relationship with the originating server. My website is not an ActivityPub server, but i get thousands of spam messages from mastodon servers a day. I’ve filed two different issues related to that but neither of them has received much attention (and none from garg).

Ouch :( Are Pleroma, Akkoma and others doing a much better job at this ?

Have not tried it myself. Nice that there’s a bin package in AUR. I see that Akkoma has IRC and Discourse community channels : https://docs.akkoma.dev/stable/

Today I noticed this : https://blacktwitter.io/about Hopefully that will help more Black people to move away from Twitter

All we can do is keep trying to make a place that is useful enough and iteratively more comfortable. If we care about these people, and the concept of decentralized freedom.for all. And we need to seriously listen and consider, and maybe even compromise, as the linked article has tried to do.

Thanks for your insightful comment

I also like to see Twitter go down and dissappear. The criticism about Mastodon by Black people has indeed been seen before, and I do not understand it. They find the quote reply very important, but some journalists also wrote that they think they cannot do without it. In reply to that I saw this web link on Mastodon : https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20673 (a long read) which shows that Mastodon no longer does not want to have the same feature as on Twitter but is looking at a more safe alternative.

Thanks for mentioning Ktistec, that looks like a neat one user Mastodon instance alternative.

The web link is for the main Teddit instance, and I was too lazy or too much in a rush to change the Lemmy auto suggestion for the post title. Arch, btw, the devs of Lemmy did post AMA on Reddit : https://teddit.net/r/rust/comments/gukx09/we_are_the_devs_behind_lemmy_an_open_source/ Sometimes it is difficult to avoid reading Reddit. The author of qutebrowser used Reddit to blog about its 9th birthday 6 days ago :( https://teddit.net/r/qutebrowser/comments/zm0x5c/happy_9th_birthday_qutebrowser/

Nice

Yes, even the EU Commission believes in John : https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/109545164524227700

The John Mastodon meme started when some media website made a mistake about the Join Mastodon Twitter account. https://boingboing.net/2022/12/18/mastodon-users-embrace-columnists-funny-error-about-a-fictitious-john-mastodon.html

https://journa.host/about (more than 2k users) Meanwhile the banning of Twitter accounts of journalists continued : https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/109535608515477675

Someone like Micah Lee (Who just got banned on Twitter) has been on Mastodon for longer. Not only a journalist but also creator of various open source software like Tor Browser launcher and Onionshare. Besides that, I guess sometimes it can be useful to send a Direct Message to a journalist rather than trying to phone or write them.

It would have been nice to have a bit more information:

does it have a frontend? If so what does it look like? What does “somewhat compatible with mastodon” mean? Which features are working?

@lionel@lemmy.coupou.fr

This software is Work in progress, found it here in the comments : https://lobste.rs/s/xvvjza/playing_with_activitypub#c_spnt25

The page shows what works and what does not work. I think it is similar as GoToSocial, having no front end.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/raspberry-pi-hired-ex-cop-mastodon-controversy

If you want to self-host or have it hosted for you then have a look at Hometown https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki which allows Local only posts. The developer Darius has written articles before shared in an interview on how he is running a friends only Hometown instance.

Thanks for mentioning CalcKey, interesting - https://joinfediverse.wiki/What_is_Calckey%3F/en

Does it not depend on the amount of followers ? https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/