Pokemon Go to the Akkoma?

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A week or two ago, I don’t know, I find it harder and harder to measure time, I migrated over to my own personally hosted GoToSocial instance. The software is really cool and I admire/enjoy the work the devs are doing and have done on it. But, and that’s a small butt, there are some missing features, things that other more long-standing software already has that I kind of find vital to have access to as someone who is a “creator” of sorts, who needs to be able to access and see things correctly. But, again, GoToSocial is really cool, and I’ll continue watching its development updates.

So, what I did for a replacement, because I need to be able to see the federated timeline. Especially as an admin, so that I can effectively identify and block out unwanted content, and because I’d like to possibly integrate a relay or two … I installed Akkoma and the Pleroma front-end. Which has these things, plus more. I’m not entirely sure it’s exactly as light-weight as GoToSocial, but … Akkoma is light-weight, especially in comparison to Mastodon, which eats resources like kids eat candy on Halloween.

This is my nullspace.

I know, I’ve been jumping around a lot ever since I turned off my Mastodon instance, and I’m aware some unscrupulous admins out there auto-block Akkoma instances because of associations the software may or may not have to the original Pleroma project (which used to have a lead dev who was heavily embedded in nazi irony posting). But, they just gotta get over it, you know? Mastodon’s not the only software out there, and if it’s going to be as heavy as a neutron bomb, the people who run Mastodon instances should expect that not everyone is going to run it. I think, at the end of my Mastodon instance, I was spending like … 70 dollars a month.

That’s too much.

And that’s coming from me, who was once spending two hundred dollars a month just so I could own and run my own region in Second Life.

Never-the-less, Nullspace is not that much different than my GoToSocial instance, except that registrations are by invite-code only, and in order to get one, you gotta talk to me.

That’s it, that’s the post.