@ajroach42 GNU Social was written by leftist free software advocates from https://social.umeahackerspace.se/ . Also, the many quitter-sites like quitter.se, quitter.no and quitter.es, and sites like gnusocial.de or gnusocial.no definitely aren't "free speech maximalists".
Pleroma is not related to gamergate (or political in any way), it's just a lightweight OStatus server written in Elixir that implements the GS and Mastodon APIs.
There's also Friendica http://friendi.ca/ which implements multiple protocols (OStatus and Diaspora, AFAIK).
@crackfantastic mastodon dot social is one of the worst instances one can join. It's way too big but has no theme, the S/N ratio of the timeline is atrocious. They block some cool people and are not transparent about it so the users don't even know what they're missing.
On niu the users have similar interests so it's much more lively.
@AkaiHebi No. First of all, RSA was not broken, the implementation of RSA in specific devices was. RSA is well understood and tested, and your keys generated with OpenSSL are still secure.
@Gargron@wxcafe Perhaps in a world where the whole point of that software is to be an open standard, one where users are not tied to any single implementation?