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He joined Universodon during one of the Twitter exoduses a couple years back. Elvira also joined Universodon without knowing it was a space themed instance. Not sure if she’s still there.

There already exist plugins for Peertube that allow cryptocurrency integration.

Setting up a Ko-fi is still the best option to get monetisation going on Fedi.

Mastodon and Misskey are both getting a little overstuffed. Neither are particularly nimble, with Masto moving to further “professionalise” itself and Misskey (forks included) having way too much stuff on offer in terms of features.

Regarding clients, Kaiteki seems to be the best Misskey client I’ve found on mobile. The native PWA was an absolute pain the last time I used Misskey. The anime issue with it probably stems from it’s Japanese origin and most big instances seen as refuges for artists banned off Twitter.

I’ve personally switched to GoToSocial, which seems to fill all the Mastodon-shaped holes without gulping down resources.

But if Twitter users move over, will they like having to figure out the rules and politics of each instance they want to join or knowing that the administrators of those servers can read their DMs?

I wish people would stop bringing up how admins can read DMs on Masto. Yes, they technically can but 99.9% of them could not give a shit about what you’re DMing to other users. Until Elon implements encrypted DMs, Twitter staff can read your DMs too.

The concept of learning a new set of rules (which are mostly just “don’t be an asshole” and “don’t be a Nazi”) is a non-issue when your moderation team is actually made up of easily contactable people. If you don’t like the rules, you can easily migrate your account elsewhere.

I’m glad Akkoma seems to be opposing all the freeze peach nuts who very much gave Pleroma the reputation for being the Mastodon of Nazis.

We need alternatives to Mastodon. MissKey is nice (although had major federation issues for me and was barely updated when I went to use it through YunoHost) and GoToSocial seems to be making decent progress but something lightweight like what Pleroma used to be would be nice (depending on how you see it) for self-hosters who just want to run their instance from a Raspberry Pi or a cheap VPS.