Jacob Adams

I signed onto Fosstodon last week to give Mastodon another try. I found the overall experience to be massively improved (last time I touched it was in 2017) and the recent traction it has gotten puts it well ahead of anything else IMO (I'm also testing out Farcaster and a few other services, but those seem pretty niche/immature in comparison).

While Mastodon is a bit rough around the edges, it has that same sort of excitement to me when I signed onto Twitter back in 2006, and most of those same friends/connections from those early days have been migrating. Based on the numbers floating around, I think it has enough traction now/critical mass to be it's own pretty exciting thing. While a lot of instances will fail, I don't think economic sustainability is actually a showstopper. Patreon, OpenCollective, any number of tools can handle recurrent donations enough to sustain larger instances, and there probably will be some alternative approaches as well. Migrating accounts between Mastodon instances isn't perfect, but is a core built-in feature, so while there's a bit of instance roulette, I don't think it's such a big deal. There are tools like https://fediverse.observer/ that might help for picking. It even has a map view, which is pretty neat: https://fediverse.observer/map

Here's a rough view of ActivityPub growth: https://fediverse.observer/stats

FWIW, I decided early on as I started researching into the current state of the Fediverse/ActivityPub that I should probably…

Gitea is prob the best pick if you fancy a github-a-like. Hopefully we soon have forgefed/AP federation, to facilitate collaboration across servers. The intention is to make it a standard protocol for forges to share not just code but also the coordination/social parts, so a server can choose to allow outside contribution without registering or e-mail.

As soon as you get a Postgres server up and have some flow to keep your infra in source control (ansible+docker-compose/systemd goes a long way; they're a sane starting point for the unopionated mostly because of popularity), setting up new services is pretty straight-forward.

I did use nexus at work but tbh the official docker-registry container and a static webserver have proven sufficient for personal use.

Here's a decent run-down of alternatives for hosting a forge, it all comes down to preference: https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/choosing-a-self-hosted-git-service

> Or is the only viable advice nowadays: "Don't. Just use the cloud."?

For the people who really can't or won't self-host, I'd suggest at least looking at smaller providers rather than defaulting to big tech for everything.

Would you expect someone selling a product to give an accurate review? They have a conflict of interest. Give me a review from someone who does not have a conflict of interest.

I'll show you what I'm looking for:

https://labs.tomasino.org/mechanical-keyboards/

https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/vortex-vibe-keyboard

https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Mechanical_keyboards

https://www.vegard.net/the-ultimate-keyboard-part-2-switches/

http://boxbase.org/entries/2015/nov/30/ergodox/

Where are those types of search results?