Pleroma 2.1

66 points by mewmewblobcat 5 years ago | 14 comments

It seems all the fediverse apps are modeled on Twitter or Social Media - everybody posts stuff and then you consume a feed. To be honest, it feels like work for me to check Facebook or Twitter nowadays.

I wish there was an app more like MySpace or early Facebook [1]. You have your own page that you carefully curate, list your hobbies and favorite bands and whatever, and you can connect with friends and browse their pages and maybe leave a message there. I think this other model would also get around the problem of network effects - a landing page or personal homepage works even if you don't have connections yet.

[1] Or, if you went to university in Germany in the 2000s, the learning platform Stud.IP. My classmates and I spent countless hours in the forums, decorating our user pages, and chatting. And it was heavily gamified, you got XP for every action and we were all trying to level up. I still think of this as close to an ideal "social network" app.

sascha_sl 5 years ago | |

I see particularly young people rebuilding that out of a patchwork of twitter and services like cardd.

JChase2 5 years ago |

We set up a pleroma instance on OpenBSD a while back. It works pretty well. Kind of a pain to get set up due to version mismatches of elixir and Erlang and what not, but it wasn't too painful. I imagine it's a lot easier on a supported distro like Debian. Can't wait to upgrade for the new chat system. Hopefully that goes well on OpenBSD.

abdulmuhaimin 5 years ago |

Never heard of this project until now, and Im surprised its actually built on top of Elixir/Phoenix. For such a good project, its not mentioned much in the community

mxuribe 5 years ago | |

> ...its not mentioned much in the community

Was your reference to the Hacker News community? Because it is well known in the fediverse.

aidenn0 5 years ago | | |

I read it as the BEAM or elixer community

fsiefken 5 years ago |

This looks very good. OStatus and ActivityPub, I2P interface, RSS feed. It would be an ideal blog platform, if I could feed it markdown and if it can be themed. Unfortunately there is this character limit of say 500 (to be compatible with Mastodon) which is a bit minimal for blogging (well, i do like the microblog concept). How much would one minimally need for a complex thought? 500? 1024c?

Does anyone know what the usual post limit is on the popular Pleroma instances? I was thinking of migrating to a static blog with Hugo or Nanoc, but I really like a federated presence like this: https://pleroma.paritybit.ca/jbauer

Edith Reisen wrote a good Pleroma overview: https://edith.reisen/computers/misc/pleroma.html

barrucadu 5 years ago | |

The default character limit is 5000, I believe, and it supports Markdown.

chaz6 5 years ago |

I am curious to know why their GitLab instance reports the size of the repository as 336.6 GB of storage when there are only 286.6 MB of files.

danmur 5 years ago | |

Maybe someone accidentally checked in the PSDs

AbuAssar 5 years ago |

“Pleroma is a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols. It is compatible with GNU Social, Mastodon, and many other ActivityPub implementations.

The project consists of several components: Pleroma is the server implementation, and comes bundled with PleromaFE, the default frontend. Other useful utilities are also provided, such as an ActivityPub relay.”

mikece 5 years ago |

E2E encrypted DMs will be quite a coup! Will Pleroma be the only OpenSocial project supporting that?

m_b 5 years ago | |

It’s coming to Mastodon too: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/13820

moralestapia 5 years ago |

If someone involved in the project sees this,

* I would really like to install PleromaFE and use it *

But your download links are broken ... come on