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You should take a look at calckey https://codeberg.org/calckey/calckey

I think language was probably a major barrier in the earlier days of the project. That, and they also kind of took their own approach to implementing ActivityPub. To my knowledge, they still don't really have any implementation of the Mastodon API, so client support is pretty limited compared to other fedi microblogging platforms.

It just doesn't seem very aimed at Westerners. There is a mature fork gaining prominence that is called Calckey… at least, for the next 5 days, until it rebrands. I suggest you check it out.

I think it's all the anime lmao, Calkey is basically rebranded misskey but I see english speakers go that way much more recently idk

Misskey is dope, but mastodon is simpler imo