#Akkoma

[boreal-sea]

I love Akkoma so much because you can customize it to look however you want T_T

I am under the sea <3

[riotouseaterofflesh]

A warning to anyone trying out the fediverse/Mastodon

There's a large cluster of people who are basically an alliance of photomatts and (if you're on Twitter) Jai orbiters who try to police the various servers to isolate people they deem to be undesirables.

They are deeply transmisogynistic and unhinged, in ways that make photomatt's recent behaviour seem downright enlightened in comparison.

A recent good summary of what's going on is posted here.

A much lengthier history of this drama (which has been going on for years) has been put up by a kindly anon here.

The fediverse isn't all like this, but you do need to watch out which server you make your account on.

General red flags to avoid:

any involvement with "The Bad Space"

mastodon.art

users who frequently post to the #FediBlock hashtag

use of automated or shared blocklists (these are for entire servers blocking other servers, not individual accounts)

reasons for blocking a server mentioning "oliphaunt" or "tier" anything

As a general rule, you will want to coordinate with your mutuals which servers you go to as much as possible, to minimize the chances that you end up on different instances and end up getting cut off from each other until at least one of you makes an alt so you're both on servers that communicate with each other. This takes a bit of trial and error but unfortunately that is the nature of a decentralized social networking system.

So all that said... I really hope staff smarten up, Matt gets put in his place by his and Tumblr's lawyers and we can all stay where we are.

[stupidwittlebaby]

Fediverse! We're in it! Feel free to follow haumeageth@seafoam.space! Our posts there will be very similar to our posts here - otherkin stuff, plural stuff, daily life stuff c:

[profsugoi]

cryptidcafe.net - personal website

@sugoi.cryptidcafe.net - bluesky art tumblr - art only account outerheaven.club - mastodon (akkoma) spacehey - silly internet profile github - screaming and crying simulator

[atsvensson]

I Fediversum syns bara poster från de en följer

I Fediversum syns bara poster från de en följer. För att se poster från någon i Fediversum måste personen, organisationen eller tidningen följas, Dvs en måste följa deras konto. Detsamma gäller än så länge BlueSky men då det senare ägs av ett kommersiellt företag med vinstkrav är det inte troligt att det kommer att förbli på det viset. Bluesky kommer att tvingas sälja reklam och användardata för…

[hellquist]

Just a test to see where this screenshot of Akkoma with a Nord-theme actually ends up being visible. Feel free to ignore.

#testing #akkoma #nordtheme

[femboy-catgirl]

YALL PLEASE JOIN FEDI! ESCAPE WITH US.

[facsimile-tech]

YOU want your own fediverse instance bc, idk, you got banned for being leftist wrong on a server you like and/or you think you have what it takes to foster a really special microcommunity and you're probably right

but don't want to deal with spinning it up bc you don't like banging on the terminal end of da server or don' know how or just don't fucking feel like it

I want to pay my rent this month

let's fuckin taaaaAAALKKK

[weirderscience]

considering how glitchy/unstable sharkey is + the developers having some internal issues rn idk if i want to run an instance on it but the alternative is akkoma. and since a certain infamous instance a lot of ppl knew about here used akkoma idk if i want to give that impression orz

[davepaste]

actual blogposting

I've managed to get my own Akkoma instance running, I'm not sure about transferring my oldbytes.space followers over to it though. I have only weekly drive backups running and I'm always worried about oracle just taking everything down.

Was surprisingly easy to spin up via docker, ran into quite a few issues but they were with my environment. Mostly file permissions.

Did this primarily because my Tumblr runs off of a custom domain (blog.gollihar.in), and they want me to pay them 4$ a year to use it. Old news, and not really a lot of money, but absolutely livid whenever a long-time free feature goes paid. I'd actually consider it if they threw in a value add of some sort, like not displaying ads on my blog for mobile users or something.

[senilthesynth]

been fucking around with some fediverse software hosting (to someday run it for a queer discord server) and fuckin' hell akkoma loved breaking at the slightest touch. Literally just adding a custom theme? nah fam, fuck you let's now never consistently load the homepage on DESKTOP (mobile was fine) because you dared add a new "default" theme.

I finally decided that trying to get Mastodon with glitch-soc up and running was worth more of my time. if that fails (or if performance is literal garbage) then I'll just try firefish lmao, their docs seem a lot better. And despite having subpar app support right now, the dev team is working on an official one & their web UI ain't half bad on desktop or mobile for the time being.

god. why was it so frustrating. so annoying. if I end up going the firefish route it better not be as hellish to deal with.

[boreal-sea]

My Masterlist of Fediverse Servers

Where to find servers not on this list:

Fandom Servers:

Blorbo.Social (General fandom server)

Gay Pirates Club (specifically for OFMD fans)

TenForward.Social (Star Trek themed server)

Themed Servers:

Babka.Social (Jewish server)

Indiepocalypse.Social (Arts and crafts)

Furries.Club (Furries)

Tumblr-like Servers

WAFRN

WetDry.World

Goblin.Band

You can join any of these and then look at content on any of them, follow anyone from any of them, all from one account.

If you know of any others, put them in the comments or replies and I will add them to the original post! Also, if you know of any guppe or chirp groups, I will add those too!

And if you wanna follow me, I'm here:

[ryjelsum]

linus torvalds decided to create a fediverse instance for kernel.org (where the development of the linux kernel is catalogued and centralized) and everyone kinda went wild over it tbh. you love it see it

[mizuta]

in lieu of twitter slowly going down the drain i have a fediverse acc now

[nyancrimew]

hi, your akkoma instance seems to be down- is this intentional?

my server has run out of storage and i haven't yet had the brain capacity to live resize the root partition again, but i'll probably get to that by next week

[atsvensson]

Ingen äger Fediversum

Ingen äger Fediversum medan kapitalister och storföretag äger X, Threads, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Youtube och andra välkända och stora sociala medier. Det är ett korrekt påstående. Ingen äger Mastodon påstås det också ofta. Det är ett falskt påstående. Mastodon är den vanligaste programvaran i Fediversum både när det gäller antalet användare och antalet instanser och den ägs faktiskt av ett företag,…