How do people feel about Akkoma? It seems to be a fork of pleroma that’s been showing up in comments lately. If you’ve tried it please share your experience.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Is apparently The main choice for using a single user microblogging platform as it can run on minimal resources unlike mastodon without reading of any features (it has more than mastodon AFAIU).

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      1 year ago

      Gotosocial might be the better choice for single user instances.

      I run Akkoma myself and it is nice overall, but I was surprised how relatively resource heavy it is. Lightweight is relative, and it is lightweight compared to Mastodon only.

      I think the main advantage of Akkoma over other options is the extreme customizability of it.

      • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I had forgotten about this one! I know very little about it though … really appreciate the minimalistic approach.

        Perhaps in a similar boat would be microblog.pub which might be preferable for people who want to hack their instance and are more comfortable with python, or want indieweb compatibility too.

  • s4if@lemmy.my.id
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    I once run it in VM on my workplace’s old pc with just 1.5GB RAM allocated to it. It runs great, can federate well and has low memory usage even when replying to popular guy on mastodon.social.
    The server pc died tho, as well as the domain it uses. I never rebuild it.

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    1 year ago

    I really like Akkoma, it has a nice style and I like being able to react and quote post. It’s also more customizable than Mastodon and has markdown

  • Chris@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I ran a Pleroma instance for a while. I gave up because the application support wasn’t great. Now I run a mastodon instance - and the app support is much better. The resource usage is a non-issue.

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        1 year ago

        yeah, but missing quotes and emoji reactions, which are half of the fun

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              1 year ago

              Bro, you can’t see who I was repying to or what? The original comment poster said they moved from Pleroma to Mastodon because Pleroma had poor app support

              • esty@lemmy.ca
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                1 year ago

                yes, and you said pleroma works in mastodon apps, and i said yes but at the cost of features

                what’s the problem?

      • Chris@programming.dev
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        1 year ago

        They claim to (and some aren’t horrific), but they don’t work as well. So far, nothing beats Mona and Mastodon - hands down.