There is usually a meta community where you can ask the instance admins for a community transfer.

You can open the browser extension menu and press the fill button. The autofill never seems to have worked here on my mobile Firefox 🤷

In theory you can also self-host Firefox sync, but well… there seem to be issues with that.

Also included: XMPP account on the same address, but it would be nice if they would keep their Ejabberd a bit more up to date.

What you need to be aware off is that the LibreOffice based options run a full headless LibreOffice client on the server for each connecting user and stream the view as tiles to the webclients. If you mostly use low power devices to access your office files remotely this can be great as it offloads the processing to the server. But I think in most home server or VPS settings the server speed is the more limiting factor.

OnlyOffice on the other hand runs entirely in your browser and thus puts little extra strain on the server.

Well, lets see when that actually happens. I am doubtful.

I guess they are being creative on marketing with having implemented a small part of the matrix protocol via their appservice bridge.

The disadvantage is that it is just a bridge like many others and totally dependent on Synapse, which is a resource hog and open-core.

actually implemented the matrix protocol, so it’s interoperable with matrix.

They originally planned this, but realized along the way that the Matrix specs are overly complicated and change at the wim of Element, so they ended up only supporting a link to Synapse via the appservice system, which isn’t great as it means you have to run both Rocketchat and Synapse on the same server for it to work.

XMPP is great. Movim.eu is a nice webclient for it that also does macro-blogging.

Akkoma serves me well for the micro-blogging part of the Fediverse.

GoToSocial is just another Fediverse software that works with multiple users like any other. The difference is really only that it is tuned more towards smaller instances and as a result is easier to set up and maintain. It also assumes most people will be using a mobile app with it anyways and thus the built in webclient is very bare bones. It does work fine with external webclients like Phanpy though.

I am aware of that and explicitly didn’t write ActivityPub c2s api 🙄

Quite interesting that this functions as an independent AP server instead of using the c2s api like most other bots 👍

You can still manually query accounts, yes. But that is not what I said.

This only applies to old posts. New post will not be send to lemmy.ml anymore.

I agree on the global forum aspect of Twitter being the reason it was exciting for public figures and journalists, but you get waaay more genuine interactions from normal (techy) people on Mastodon. It may feel a bit dead when you start out because there is no algorithm to feed you content, but after a while of using it you get a lot of interesting opinions and feedback on things you post.

https://github.com/agola-io/agola

Maybe, but I ended up with Woodpecker for now.

You might want to look into: https://github.com/lab132/buildbot-gitea

GoToSocial works without problems on Podman, they probably just meant that they can’t give technical support for it.

👍 for hosting a xmpp server. Next step is to get a real domain name!

You must have last used XMPP more than a decade ago, since none of these issues still exist (except on Pidgin which also hasn’t been updated since a decade).

And XMPP is also not a “chatty protocol, and wasteful of network bandwidth” at all. In fact it is using significantly less bandwidth than Matrix and works on extremely shitty connections. It is basically the exact opposite of what you say.

They even have their own fake crypto-coin!

This is like a full set of bullshit bingo on one page 🤦‍♂️

The problem is that you are the ideologue but fail to realize that. Capitalism is an ideology and a very harmful one.

As for those investments, lets see, but I don’t expect much to come from those.