[MrGilbert]

I like to run mastodon as a single-user, and actively connect to other instances by following certain people. What I find lacking (but that might be a configuration issue): I cannot seem to get the replies to other people statuses, which are not from my server (so, basically, all). That'd be a bummer if that doesn't work.

[zimpenfish]

Pleroma v2.0.0[1] lets you hover over the "Reply to" text to get the replied to status in a little popup (which might be new in v2.) But also a little "popout" icon that will open the entire thread in another window (which previously existed pre-v2.)

[1] running as essentially a single-user instance.

[dnpp123]

I'm running Pleroma in the same use case, it works fine for me I think.

If other people want to do that and switch from Twitter -> Fediverse, I wrote a bunch of scripts to switch from Twitter to Fediverse :

https://git.sr.ht/~pierrenn/twitter_escape

Sadly, this is a bit spammy method, but I had only a dozen or so complaints so far and my "Whole known network" is now seeded pretty well : https://s.pnn.sh/ (this is a small single user home instance on ARM, so it's slow)

And TBH I find the Pleroma UI better than Mastodon for the single user instance - plus clicking on the date to get replies in the Mastodon frontend always feels weird (but it's personal taste !)

[MrGilbert]

I'm currently trying to get my head around wrapping Pleroma in Docker, as I've everything dockerized and behind a Traefik proxy.

Thanks for the links!