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Use Pleroma. It's much easier to setup and better architectured technically. Also all(?) ActivityPub servers support the old Twitter API, so some third party Twitter apps have support for it - Twidere on Android definitely does, at least.

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Be careful with Pleroma for anything business related. It's licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License. Anything attached to it is at risk of being tainted and requiring the same license.

https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/blob/develop/AG...

I'm sure it's just fine for personal use though.

If you are embedding or extending the software than yes, the AGPL would take effect when providing a network service. But if you just use it and comunicate with it via the defined protocols there is no such obligation.

Is it easier to discover people on Pleroma ? Does it fix the issues I mentioned?

Discoverability is a little better since Pleroma exposes the public timelines for non-logged in users (though the admin can disable that). I'm not sure about search.

This is also possible on Mastodon now.

But I meant maybe there is a way to follow a whole instance like Misskey, or it shows users when it became aware of them rather than only when following them, etc.

Yes, Akkoma.dev allows you to create a “bubble timeline”, which is essentially your local timeline + the local timelines of any other servers you (the admin) chooses.

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