Thinking of hosting one for myself and was wondering what the downsides of each are. Do they all interact fine with each other? Can I log into mastadon apps with misskey/pleroma accounts? Is it like lemmy where the app specifically needs to support mbin (interstellar) to use that account?
Which one requires the least resources? I’m on ios so I’ll likely gravitate towards whichever one works best with ios apps. I do see that sora sns seems to support all of them + bluesky.
I would rather suggest the Akkoma (=pleroma) and Sharkey (=Misskey) forks for a series of reasons.
They interact with each other fine, no real problems there, except Mastodon users can’t see custom emoji reactions and such.
Mastodon apps generally work fine with Akkoma, for Sharkey it is a bit less smooth and also a lot of the extra functionality of Sharkey is obviously not supported in Mastodon apps.
I’ll second Sharkey, I was on a Firefish instance thst migrated over (seamlessly) and the features are a great improvement over Mastodon.
Iceshrimp (another *key fork) is being rewritten and that might make it the superior cousin but, until then Sharkey is solid.
What’s wrong with Misskey? Misskey is well supported, even have proper funding from booth communities and various company.
There are several Misskey apps that works properly, even with Misskey-flavored Markdown support, like Miria and Aria (Miria fork).
Sharkey also has MFM support, so Miria/Aria as main client is better.
Sharkey includes many improvements that never made it back into the Misskey codebase and Misskey’s documentation and community support is mostly in Japanese.
That’s why Misskey is desperately need English contributor.
It’s always hard for FOSS software when its main community is non-English got forked and international community doesn’t help them.