Some observations about my #ktistec (1.0.0) trial:

• The setup was super easy and blazingly quick. Barely any load on my server hardware
• The UI is very smooth, simple and fast
• Rich message-composer, which however feels like it is constantly fighting me (on mobile)
• Posts can be edited any time!
• Visibility of posts cannot be set. Everything is "global"
• Media upload works fine. "Captions" are not the same as "alttext" in Mastodon.
• Searching for tags would be a nice feature
• No option for filtering my timeline, except for following and blocking accounts
• Posts of accounts appear from the moment onwards you interacted with them for the first time
• Above two observations make threads really awkward, because there is missing context
• The "metrics" feature is really, really nice!
• Obviously no limitation on post length(?)
• No API that I am aware of. makes cross posting, archiving, etc somewhat hard to achieve(?)
• The web-frontend embeds content from jquery, cloudflare and another random domain, which I feel like shouldn't be necessary (see screenshot)

All in all, there are many rough edges, but nothing that appears like it couldn't be overcome. Feels quicker nice, actually and I hope I have the skill set to actually contribute to this in the future!