{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Scribus (scribus)'s status on Friday, 22-Jan-21 17:54:29 UTC","author_name":"Scribus (scribus)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/scribus","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/5476139","html":"Man, I was gonna look into trying out a Diaspora* social network account, to see if maybe I wanted to use it for my own fedi backbone, but... it's looking like a big, fat "Probably not" based solely upon the fact that I wasn't able to find a good-looking server. I would go on to say "A good-looking server that didn't require a vague 'donation' or 'support' to join," but I couldn't even find one that didn't look like the default site. Boilerplate text, same damn image... I have Pleroma already, but I'm feeling pretty "over" (most of) the Twitter-style sites, and thus have no reason to even tinker with Mastodon to achieve the same effect. I suppose I am looking for something more "Facebook"-y, more fully-featured than Twitter\/Pleroma\/et al. And hey, Friendica supports OStatus, so...."}