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ANNOUNCEMENT: The world’s first general purpose #Akkomane server is here!

With great excitement, akkomane.social is open for registrations!

Akkomane is an alternative to #Mastodon and #Threads that provides incredible stability with a beautiful and futuristic Twitter-like front-end for the #Fediverse.

I have launched akkomane.social to demonstrate this software’s unique capabilities.

Currently, I’m capping memberships to 20 people (not bots). While membership preference is given to those who’d like to build and maintain an Akkomane server, everyone is welcome to apply! More membership slots will be available in the coming weeks.

To sign up for akkomane.social, visit here:

https://akkomane.social

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Chris Trottier (@christophertrottier@akkomane.social)

I’m excited to announce that a new Fediverse server, akkomane.social, is open for registrations.What is Akkomane?Akkomane is a portmanteau of “Akkoma + Mangane”. It’s how I refer to Akkomane server...
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This is what the UI/UX of akkomane.social looks like.

It’s mostly stock Mangane, but I’ve made adjustments. Primarily, I changed the colours to an attractive blue and purple theme.

I’ve also changed the default logo to make it more apparent that akkomane.social is based on Akkoma.

You can use both dark and light themes with akkomane.social too.

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Dark desktop theme
Compose box with dark theme
Profile view with dark theme
Profile view with light theme
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A few features on akkomane.social that you are bound to love:

  • Customized emoji reactions
  • Quote posts
  • Markdown support
  • Scheduled posting
  • Hashtag following

There’s too many great features to list, but these are some of the highlights.

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@atomicpoet chris i like it! I'm hosting little #GoToSocial instance for testing right now, i like it for the minimum impact on my vps but can i ask you what is the RAM consumption for your personal akkoma space?
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@lorenzo I have tested Akkomane on 512MB of RAM, and it works excellently.

As for akkomane.social, it runs on 2GB of RAM so that it can initially host 20 active users.

And for atomicpoet.org, I am using 8GB of RAM because this is a highly-trafficked server and I want to deal with anything that happens.

atomicpoet's instance

atomicpoet.org
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Shoq
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Is there an deck UI?

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@shoq No built-in deck UI. However, you can use akkomane.social with the Whalebird client – which will provide you with a deck UI.
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Can you use akkomane.social with any clients? Absolutely! The following clients work smoothly with akkomane.social:

  • Sora
  • Fedilab
  • Tusky
  • Whalebird
  • Phanpy

You can even use akkomane.social with Mastodon.

That’s right! You can use akkomane.social with Mastodon’s Android and iOS clients!

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Matt 😎
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You’ve got me interested in Akkomane. I’d really like to decrease my hosting costs.

I’m currently running Mastodon. Does it have Mastodon-style migration where I can move my followers to another server? 🤞🏻

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@leopardboy Yes, it does! I have successfully migrated from firefish.city to atomicpoet.org, which is my Akkomane server.

If you want to test drive Akkomane and see how you like it, feel free to register an account on akkomane.social.

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Cool, thanks! I will check it out. I'm also curious to see how well Ivory works with it since you mentioned that Mastodon clients ought to be able to work.
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@leopardboy It does not work well with Ivory since Ivory is very insistent about only being compatible with Mastodon.

Other Mastodon clients work, however, including Mastodon’s official client.

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Ah, good to know. Thanks! I'm not opposed to trying another client.
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Tassoman
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@husky is much better than Tusky while using a Pleroma's fork as fedi server. For example, it supports chat and emoji reactions you can't have on mastodon
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Tassoman
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Well, it's just a fork of @soapbox #soapbox frontend
#soapbox @users/soapbox

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@tassoman Soapbox isn’t usable with Akkoma. And even if it were, most people that use Akkoma wouldn’t use Soapbox.
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This is not the point. The point is #freesoftware goes beyond rivalry between people. There's no meaning to exclude some people when the value is the source code.
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Drew Mochak
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Can't sign up due to the capcha not providing a visual alternative. I am not looking to host my own though so you would probably not get to me for a while. Thought you should know though! Looks like a cool project.
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@objectinspace I appreciate your interest too!

By the way, I also loathe CAPCHAs but since there’s a spam problem on the Fediverse, I need to be careful about who I let in. 🙁

If you still want an account on akkomane.social, please let me know and I can provide an alternative means to get you started.

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Drew Mochak
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Thanks that's very kind! I will take one, if you are offering. I am mostly just looking for a place to post from that supports quotes and markdown that also federates with Threads. My current instance does not do these things. I am still happy where I am though, and since threads does not federate both ways, it is not a priority yet for me to be active there. So I would probably not be the kind of power user you are looking for at this stage. But if you don't mind, I don't mind! :)
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