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How Ruby Went Off the Rails (www.404media.co)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/foss@beehaw.org

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[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Let's hope that a mastodon rewrite is coming.

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

I host my own Akkoma instance and it's great. easier to set up than Mastodon, more light weight, etc. Only downside is the UI is a bit of a cluster and you really need to do some editing to make it look decent. Haven't had any issues interacting with anyone on Mastodon and what have you.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

There's already alternative implementations, with somewhat different featuresets:

Akkoma (more minimalist than Mastodon; Elixir in the backend): https://akkoma.social/
Misskey (much more feature-rich than Mastodon; Typescript in the backend; extremely Japanese): https://misskey-hub.net/en/

Having said that, frankly, I doubt that the Ruby ecosystem will fall apart from this. There's too many non-volunteers whose wage depends on Ruby to keep going...

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 day ago

What about Sharkey? Or whatever it was named

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago

So far we only have a desire to be on mastodon or gotosocial (if we ever figure out how to run our own server).

We are aware that there is other microblogging software on fedi, but we are happy on mastodon for now, as the people we want to be around are explicitly on servers running mastodon.

We can hope mastodon will do a rewrite, but yes, even if not we sadly agree. Still they should very much consider it, if only as a matter of principal.