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Pleroma vs Misskey vs Mastadon

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.

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The mastodon apps work, but generally only offer the mastodon functions. Fedilab may offer a little more.
There is also Dhaaga: A "client for various social networking platforms and protocols.
🩵 Bluesky 💙 Mastodon 💚 Misskey 💛 Pleroma 🩷 Sharkey 🧡 Cherrypick 💜 Akkoma"
edit: sorry, forgot to read that you are looking for iOs

What's with people recently spelling it "mastadon"? This must be the third or fourth post in the last week I've seen with that typo.
- Apparently for many US americans Mastodon is somewhat pronounced like Mastadon. But I also find this misspelling irritating.
- It just sounds right, I keep correcting myself but forgot to that time
- It's not recent. It's been a common misspelling for years. You're probably experiencing the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon.
  
  Nope, I don't usually even see the word Mastodon written 3-4 times in a week. My best guessing this is because Meta-exodus has created a buzz around the fediverse, so I'm seeing more references to Mastodon, and those users are more likely to be new to the service.

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.

From my experience with different iOS apps, you can’t log in to a Mastodon app with a Sharkey (Misskey) account. In most cases you won’t even be able to pick/search for your server name when you go to add an account. Openvibe, I was able to find the server and log in, but then it couldn’t load my profile or any posts.
So right now I’ve got Kimis for Sharkey, Ivory for Mastodon, Bluesky for Bluesky, OpenVibe because I like the unified timeline (but it doesn’t support Bluesky labelers so I’m not 100% on it yet)…I tried SoraSNS for a few days but I just hated the UI and had a hard time switching between accounts in the app. That’s personal preference though, might work better for you.

Maybe Pleroma, has a smaller server footprint & more features (Try out it's newer fork called Akkoma)

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