Mastodon Alternatives

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• ERROR: index row size 3056 exceeds btree version 4 maximum 2704 for index
  1 project | dev.to | 20 Sep 2024

  Modern SQL databases store documents in JSON or JSONB, and you may want to index large attributes. SQL databases can also do text searches without the need for another database. For example, here is an issue encountered in Mattermost on PostgreSQL that will not happen when migrating to YugabyteDB.

• Support Post Migration on Mastodon
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Sep 2024
• Radicle 1.0 – A Local-First, P2P Alternative to GitHub
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 2024

  Surprised no one mentioned ForgeFed [0]:

  > ForgeFed is a federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools for the software development lifecycle and ecosystem. This includes repository hosting websites, issue trackers, code review applications, and more. ForgeFed provides a common substrate for people to create interoperable code collaboration websites and applications.

  It's based on ActivityPub [1], the same protocol that powers Mastodon [2], Lemmy [3], and Pixelfed [4].

  [0] https://forgefed.org/

  [1] https://activitypub.rocks/

  [2] https://joinmastodon.org/

  [3] https://join-lemmy.org/

  [4] https://pixelfed.org/

• X / Twitter alternative platforms
  1 project | dev.to | 29 Jul 2024
• Tech radar: Keep an eye on the technology landscape
  6 projects | dev.to | 17 Jun 2024

  You can favor other alternatives for ideological reasons, like Mastodon or Bluesky, but you should know that there is much less exposure at the moment, although it attracts important people in tech.

• Call to Action: Fediverse Media Server
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 May 2024

  If you really, absolutely want to continue using Mastodon, support this: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/28554.

  If you just want to run a single-user instance on the cheap: forget Mastodon! Takahe [0] does not require one whole server for each user and it has substantial lower TCO. A "small instance" for Mastodon can not be realistically be found for less than $10/month today [1], while I can offer Takahe for $39 per year.

  [0] https://jointakahe.org

  [1] https://communick.com/takahe

• Bluesky Adds Direct Messages
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 May 2024

  >You go to https://joinmastodon.org/, click on "join" (or pick another server if you are adventurous), fill in your username and email and you're good to go.

  And that gives me access to the entire service? Or just bits and pieces of it? And how do I find other services? Asking around?

  Decentralized works for motivated parties. It does not work for the masses.

• Max_post_chars Env Part 2 by boehs · Pull Request #30091 · Mastodon/Mastodon
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 May 2024
• Ask HN: What do you think about a subscription based social media?
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2024

  Oh, TIL about https://mastodon.social/ (https://joinmastodon.org/)

  Looks like what you describe, doesn't it?

  > Social networking that's not for sale.

• Alt Text box can't fit one screenshot of text
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2024

  Interestingly there is some discussion for Mastodon with people asking the limit to be smaller, which raises the question as to the purpose of alt text, and how to properly handle larger text lengths in screen reader programs.

  https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12268

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