I host my own Akkoma instance and it’s great. easier to set up than Mastodon, more light weight, etc. Only downside is the UI is a bit of a cluster and you really need to do some editing to make it look decent. Haven’t had any issues interacting with anyone on Mastodon and what have you.
Misskey (much more feature-rich than Mastodon; Typescript in the backend; extremely Japanese): https://misskey-hub.net/en/
Having said that, frankly, I doubt that the Ruby ecosystem will fall apart from this. There’s too many non-volunteers whose wage depends on Ruby to keep going…
So far we only have a desire to be on mastodon or gotosocial (if we ever figure out how to run our own server).
We are aware that there is other microblogging software on fedi, but we are happy on mastodon for now, as the people we want to be around are explicitly on servers running mastodon.
We can hope mastodon will do a rewrite, but yes, even if not we sadly agree. Still they should very much consider it, if only as a matter of principal.
Let’s hope that a mastodon rewrite is coming.
I host my own Akkoma instance and it’s great. easier to set up than Mastodon, more light weight, etc. Only downside is the UI is a bit of a cluster and you really need to do some editing to make it look decent. Haven’t had any issues interacting with anyone on Mastodon and what have you.
There’s already alternative implementations, with somewhat different featuresets:
Having said that, frankly, I doubt that the Ruby ecosystem will fall apart from this. There’s too many non-volunteers whose wage depends on Ruby to keep going…
So far we only have a desire to be on mastodon or gotosocial (if we ever figure out how to run our own server).
We are aware that there is other microblogging software on fedi, but we are happy on mastodon for now, as the people we want to be around are explicitly on servers running mastodon.
We can hope mastodon will do a rewrite, but yes, even if not we sadly agree. Still they should very much consider it, if only as a matter of principal.