@alex sincere question: what's the need for Pleroma if Mastodon/GNU-social/etc already exist?
Is it just a specific implementation?
@ibeckermayer https://soapbox.pub/blog/soapbox-fe-v1.1-release/
@alex @ibeckermayer Mastodont.
@alex ah cool, so fully ActivityPub/Mastodon compatible but with extra features / customizability?
@ibeckermayer @alex I'd say yest on being more customizable. It being lighter on resources & configuring email is much easier are the 2 main things that initially had me switch from Mastodon. I'm currently only running a single user instance now, so the email side of things isn't really a deciding factor for me. But with the resources my VPS provides running Pleroma makes the other few things I am hosting easier.
@ibeckermayer @alex same reason why there are so many distros when all of them run Linux
@GNUxeava @ibeckermayer @alex Pleroma is a specific implementation, written in the functional programming language Elixir
i personally find it superior for this reason
