Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org⁩ to ⁨fediversenews@venera.social⁩

Since Mangane is unknown to most of you here’s an explainer.

There are three main microblogging flavours of the Fediverse:

Mastodon, Glitch, Hometown, etc.
Misskey, Firefish, Sharkey, etc.
Pleroma, Akkoma, etc.

For atomicpoet.org. I used to use Pleroma but I’ve migrated to Akkoma. The Pleroma/Akkoma flavour is quite unique in that, not only is it perhaps the most resource efficient—it allows you to use different front-ends.

This is where Mangane becomes interesting because it is an incredibly user-friendly and attractive front-end developed by @clovis. And, in fact, I think it provides the most user-friendly and attractive UI/UX on the Fediverse.

Three servers that use Mangane are:

Why am I so enthusiastic about Mangane? Because not only is it good-looking and user-friendly, it provides excellent rendering for text-formatting. And its management of reposts (both regular and quoted) is spectacular.

Anyway, I’ve been testing Mangane for months. I’ve been using it on a live server for two weeks. I’m pleased with the results.

@fediversenews

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cochise@snac.subversida.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
fe.disroot.org also uses Mengane. Maybe the biggest instance using it.

CC: @fediversenews@venera.social
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- atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  @cochise @fediversenews When did they start doing that?
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kfogel@kfogel.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
@atomicpoet IOW, you're using Mangane front-end on top of Akkoma? (Just making sure I am understanding correctly, before I ask any real questions.)
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meg@fediscience.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
@atomicpoet fe.disroot.org has also been using Mangane for some time. It is one of my favorite front-ends too.
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limepeep@kitty.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org @clovis@bdx.town @fediversenews@venera.social Huh, it feels kind of like Soapbox. Not that it's a bad thing if it was actually a fork of one. In fact, I feel that any fork of Soapbox would benefit from a dev team that isn't so ... awful, especially towards our fellow :spinny_cat_trans:.
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- atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  @limepeep @fediversenews It’s not Soapbox. From what @clovis told me, it’s a fork of a fork—whether Soapbox was the first or second fork, I don’t know.
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  - foxyloxy@foxylo.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    @atomicpoet @clovis @limepeep @fediversenews I'm using Mangane on my little personal Pleroma instance. As far as I know it's a fork of the Soapbox front end, and basically is very similar in many respects. I previously was using Soapbox FE with some misgivings due to its dubious pedigree. Very happy that Mangane is available 😍
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