@miblo @mcc

Thanks for thinking of that Matt. I did move to Akkoma because I feel it is superior to Mastodon, at least for my purposes. The interface, search, threading… it just does what I want and expect. Perhaps I especially like that it doesn’t remind me of Twitter 😅

That said, it does require a bit of technical know-how to self-host and the available public instances for non-Mastodon software in general are not plentiful. Also, I still call it my ”Mastodon” username for people to understand how to follow me. The language does constrain expectations and doesn’t encourage exploration.

I think this will be different in a year or two when there will be more hosts offering a selection of Fediverse services. That’s perhaps where I would like to see the most movement.

I agree completely with mcc’s observation about apps. But I’m also a person who rarely installs apps when web interfaces just work well and do the job.

So many different types of software already do exist and more people should be trying them out. Don’t know if you’ve seen my infographic with links to the variety of services: The many branches of the Fediverse.