now on fediverse(pleroma)!

vnil.de is now a fediverse instance.

All social networks turn into a shithole, because people are people, and people love shitholes. Social networks is not something you should love or get addicted to. It is your backyard, you hang out, or simply dump shits there, you don’t (and shouldn’t) live there.

Too bad we can’t get rid of social networking, but we need a better option than facebook and twitter – and there is one: Fediverse!

Fediverse is cool AF! Open source and decentralized, it gives you the vanilla social networking back. The collective data of the communities is no longer held by monolithic companies like google, facebook or twitter. There is no more ads, and most importantly, no more big brother watching over you. You are no longer put into a information cocoons by recommendation algorithms(unless you weave your cocoon on your own).¹

Mastodon is a well known fediverse platform software, but I don’t want to install that on my server. Reason is simple: I hate dealing with thousands of node packages. ²³⁴

I chose pleroma. It’s libre and open source, well documented ⁵ and well implemented. Although I have zero knowledge of erlang or elixer vm, the setup is quite intuitive.

But for one thing, just one thing. When I first installed it on the server, the cross-site function is broken, and after an hour of troubleshooting, I figured out you have to use the develop branch of the source code, for all functions to work. I mean, seriously, DEVELOP BRANCH????

THIS IS A INVITE LINK https://vnil.de/registration/dvKhCmOOYIfF1ms7A-WIiZ1ZTvIYAWFGU3LsjAZZAlY= [2025 edit due to spams, registrations must be approved by admins]