Title: So with Elons stupidity ruining Twitter, it seems to be really happening this time, people, and content creators (Tweeters?) are moving to Mastodon for real.<p>I am not very optimistic about Mastodon, particularly for these reasons:<p>- crappy inter-instance user discovery<p>A user won&#x27;t show up in search or the federated timeline unless a local user follows them.<p>It basically makes it impossible to get discovered when using your own independent instance.<p>Even if you interact and reply to a user in instance B, you will still not show in instances B search or federated timeline.<p>I found this diagram to be helpful in explaining which users show in the federated timeline:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgbox.com&#x2F;V7rZ6i2q<p>- no way to see other instances timelines<p>This makes its even worse to discover accounts when launching your own server.<p>- no backfill for old toots[1-2]<p>This is just ridiculous.<p>But it seems to be where everyone technical is going, and since it&#x27;s a federated protocol, If I am going to use it, it&#x27;s going to be on my own server.<p>So far I have seen three main Recommendations for hosting Activity Pub<p>- Mastodon (obviously)<p>- Misskey<p>- Pleroma<p>My use case is a personal server, just for me.<p>I want something reliable, and easy to maintain, because figuring out how to migrate to another platform later-on isn&#x27;t fun.<p>Which one do you recommend?<p>Misskey looks to be the most interesting one.<p>You can create lists, follow other instances local timelines, supports reactions, remove the character limit, etc. but Mobile app support is limited, PWA is the only option.<p>But I don&#x27;t want to end up using something unpopular, where the development is going to be rather sparse.<p>1. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mastodon&#x2F;mastodon&#x2F;issues&#x2F;14017<p>2. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mastodon&#x2F;mastodon&#x2F;issues&#x2F;34
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