Signal has a lot of overlap there. They’ve got disappearing messages and Stories

Source hasn’t been released, but the dev has said it will be and there’s no reason to doubt that IMO. Same dev as pixelfed which is open source and federated

Was just talking with a friend that downloaded a Mastodon app a while back when Twitter was bought by Elon, encountered the “Choose a server” bit, and bailed after choice paralysis. They’re technical and have a doctorate in Computer Science so it’s not like they couldn’t figure it out, but there’s something in the human psyche where most people don’t want to make choices like that. They’re on Bluesky now and think its great.

IMO sites like https://pixelfed.org/how-to-join and https://join-lemmy.org/ should just have a normal sign up flow, and load balance between all servers that opt in. Looks like that’s going to happen for Pixelfed:

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113830788279211715

It’ll make some people unhappy, but that’s just how you get “normies” onto the Fediverse.

Looks like it’s still a load thing:

https://mastodon.social/@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online/113840500857115930

Pretty impressive you’re running it on a pi, even with how nice the 5 is 👍

Are you running all of the services at grey.fail on the same pi?

How big of servers are you using? Is the load just from syncing with pixelfed.social?

Pinging @jgrim@discuss.online since you run social.photo as a sister site to discuss.online

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

Probably the closest you’re going to get