Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

@dradeguardia I don't think you need to worry too much about gun safety when you're armed with a plastic replica from Deus Ex, lmao.

Or a cap gun flintlock from the looks of it...

Oops. By "post.social" I meant "post.news".

Gotta upgrade my instance and get access to that edit button someday.

@CarlataOld @steveumstead @mollyjongfast Apparently... smh

I want to give them the benefit of a doubt and hope they are against classism, and just forgot to include gender identity, but I have no reason to offer a forgiving interpretation of this wording.

@ai6yr I could watch this all day. Did a little reading and it's so common for people to flood their engines here that it's turned into a tourist attraction.

I'd spend a day in the splash zone!

@kizaing for a single-user instance, I have looked into microblog.pub, which is extremely lightweight, but it lacks a lot of the features I want to have for social interactions.

I also don't know how I'd migrate my followers over if I switched.

Otherwise, it seems excellent as a tool for FOSS projects that want to share status updates via ActivityPub.

https://sr.ht/~tsileo/microblog.pub/

@lori I also had this book! I probably have it buried in storage somewhere. I should dig it up.

An excellent intro to Linux. I also had an incompatible wifi card and dragged an extra long ethernet cable across my parents' house to get myself plugged in.

Before I knew it I was running a headless Linux server on the old family desktop PC and hosting a PHPBB server for my friends at school to use.

Learned Bash, LAMP, Asterisk, and tons of other fun FOSS stuff. Changed my life.

@kizaing There certainly isn't anything problematic about the software itself. It just seems to attract admins with a different philosophy.

A lot of the Pleroma developers are free speech absolutists, while most of the Mastodon developers are free speech realists, and FOSS people care a lot about the philosophies behind the software they use.

@davidnjoku Mastodon by a long shot! It took a while for it to become my primary network, but it's a way better experience than any other social media I have used.

@davidnjoku This is probably a healthy thing. I am too online.

Thought about including Cohost, but it doesn't pass the test of a Twitter alternative. It's its own neat little thing that doesn't deserve the comparison.

But if I had to define it: Tumblr for people who know that Tumblr sucks.

My take on Twitter alternatives:

Mastodon: For tech-literate conversationalists.

post.social: For people who go to social media for news.

Tribel: For liberals who need to rant about Trump daily.

Tumblr: For people who previously used Tumblr.

Hive: For people who don't have a computer.

CounterSocial: Mastodon for people who don't want to think they're using Mastodon.

Pleroma: Mastodon for problematic people.

Parler/GETTR/Gab/Truth Social: For dumb idiots and fascists.