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Looking for alternatives to Twitter microblogging. Mastodon seemed cool but has its downsides. Pleroma purports to be lighter-weight to host and fully ActivityPub compatible. What's the catch?

(I am not very experienced with the fediverse, having only just joined Lemmy)

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[โ€“] danhakimi@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you clarify which problems you have with Mastodon that you're hoping to resolve with these alternatives?

[โ€“] DaforLynx@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago

Nah. It's hearsay that i didn't look too deep into. But thanks to some replies I've found out that Pleroma also has its own problems. And considering what I'm intending to use such a platform for - following other people and occasionally posting updates of my own - Mastodon serves this purpose well. Plus, it's reasonably popular now, so it's more likely that people have it.