I’m thinking of moving to Pleroma because Mastodon feels really slow. Maybe it’s just that I’ve selected a popular instance and I should have chosen a more unpopular one. Anyway, I would like to know what are the pros of Pleroma over Mastodon from a user perspective.
The front end also depends on the instance you would choose or how you configure your self-hosted instance. For example with Pleroma you can have Soapbox as front end : https://soapbox.pub or others : https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/administration/CLI_tasks/frontend/ For Mastodon you can use https://github.com/nolanlawson/pinafore And https://notabug.org/halcyon-suite/halcyon you can use for Mastodon and Pleroma.