in reply to John Doe

@John Doe That's one I haven't looked at yet. I did friendica first because I wanted a platform that supported long posts because often these topics are complex and platforms that limit post size tend to result in emotional battles more than in depth examination of topics.

Then I also wanted forums and while supported under friendica, not easily, so I decided to try hubzilla, and I'm finding not easy on that platform as well, so no doubt I will be exploring others as well.

in reply to John Doe

@Robert Dinse Pleroma is like Mastodon, but a lot lighter on resources. Mastodon is built on Rails, requires PostgreSQL, Redis, a task server (sidekiq) and optionally Elasticsearch. Pleroma goes by with just PostgreSQL and is built on Elixir. I don't know much about Linux server but that's what I read in a forum. Pleroma is also more hackable and you can easily change the frontend or use multiple interchangeable front ends. You can run Pleroma on a Raspberry Pi but not Mastodon.