Topic: Pleroma

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak discuss the growth of the No Agenda live stream and the "Troll Room" community. They criticize the current state of Twitter's algorithmic timeline and encourage listeners to join decentralized social media platforms like Mastodon and Pleroma. The hosts mention the upcoming launch of Donald Trump's "Truth Social," which is rumored to be built on a Pleroma instance.

Academic researchers in the UK are studying "toxicity" on the decentralized web, specifically targeting platforms like Mastodon and Pleroma. Using a dataset that includes posts from No Agenda Social, the researchers developed a model called "ModPair" to help independent server owners automate the moderation of content they deem toxic.

The administrator of No Agenda Social, Aaronor, announces plans to migrate the instance from Mastodon to Pleroma once a migration tool is available. The move is motivated by technical and political friction within the Mastodon developer community regarding vulnerability reporting and the use of Ruby on Rails. The hosts discuss the broader "Fediverse" and the importance of decentralized social media.