I've been trying Pleroma today.
Not gonna lie guys this is kinda awesome. You can post in markown, html and whatever BBCode is, there is a ton of themes, it's more customizable, it federates with GNU Social, it can apperantly run on a Raspberry Pi and on the instance I joined (blob.cat) character limit is 50000, so you can basically type forever.
@gaige Well one could just throw an irc server in there. Or xmpp, not sure if it was necessary to build it into the social network itself 🤷🏽♂️
@person well, not everything in pleroma is added for strictly practical reasons. like the optional gopher hole and bbs server settings
@nat Actually Pleroma is older than Mastodon it seems.
@person Yeah, bbcode was cool (but nobody liked to use it) back in 2000s with forum software. Syntax was hard to type. e.g. [url=example.com]test[/url], [b]bold text[/b]
@adnan360 doesn't look very hard tbh. I'd say inline linking is easier than markdown on mobile.
@person Hubzilla has it too.
Does Pleroma allow placing images in between paragraphs? If so, it'd be amazing.
@adnan360 As far as I know, no.
@person Then you can try Hubzilla. It allows you to place images where you want to, just like a blog post. I've been using it as an Facebook replacement and so far it's doing a good job. I wrote about it too a while back:
https://socialhome.network/content/8504625/hubzilla-can-be-a-great-alternative-to-facebook/
@adnan360 Sometime I can experiment with that too :)
@person BBCode is the standard formatting that we used to use on forums a lot back in the day :)
@sotolf Oh ok :)
@greypilgrim @person Oh no, I was moderating a couple of quite big phpBB forums back in the day, and we used a lot of BBCode ;)
@greypilgrim @person Yeah that was towards the tail time that I was mostly active (Before military service)
@greypilgrim @person Ah, then I got it :)
Also there is a shoutbox, which is a thing we have because...?