Brutkey

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

p.s. If you're already on mastodon.social, you can move to a different server.

If you only just signed up and have no or very few followers, easiest option is probably to sign up on another server and forget about your mastodon.social account.

if you've already got a significant number of followers and you want to keep them, you can move your account to another server using the transfer process. There's a non-technical step-by-step guide to moving your account here: https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server

elsass_bear
@elsass_bear@mastodon.social

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Nice guide 👍
I totaly agree with you.

There's something else bothering me about Mastdon (mainly about dev) Long story short: i tried to make my own server last year, but just can't. Basicaly I wanted to use Mastodon as the activitypub engine, add front-end on top of it. But I had so many issues. The community didn't help, at all.
I'm starting to think it's on purpose.
Now i'm coding a full activitypub server, with xmpp userbase.
I hope more dev will know about AP, XMPP & fedi stuff

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@elsass_bear@mastodon.social

There are also many other Fediverse platforms apart from Mastodon, for example GoToSocial is looking pretty good 🙂

elsass_bear
@elsass_bear@mastodon.social

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

Hmmm
It was tempting at first but i'm not fluent in go 😅
Also npm or JS stuff server side is a no go for me. So there's that.

Anyway, enough of my life 🤪
My point is : mastodon is not what it says it is. It's not for the masses, It's a bit community driven, but not realy, mostly monolitic, not so well documented, heavy and tricky to install.
And i think this is by design.

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@elsass_bear@mastodon.social

I think that's the idea of GTS and some other alternatives, to make a Fediverse platform that's easier to install and lightweight.

They can use the Mastodon API so their platforms work with software written for Mastodon, but the instance is much lighter.