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Looks really interesting and exciting. Feedback: - Strange decision to have several vertical feeds - doesn't seem very convenient. Can there be one stream wit
by rayalez 10y ago
Looks really interesting and exciting.
Feedback:
- Strange decision to have several vertical feeds - doesn't seem very convenient. Can there be one stream with several tabs or something like that?
- It would be cool if there would be reddit-like discovery system, so that you could browse tags, and then sort the posts in the tag by hot/new/top.
Questions:
- What are your plans for this platform? Is it just a fun side project? Are you planning to compete with twitter?
- Are you planning to monetize?
- nhaliday 10y agoIt's essentially copying the UI of Tweetdeck, which is/was very popular w/ power users.
- daveid 10y agoAs the other poster pointed out, I was heavily inspired by TweetDeck which I've been using for 6+ years. And yes, I agree that's a nice suggestion, user/content discovery is definitely a big area in which this can be improved. Edit: I realized I forgot to answer the last two questions. Plans for the project: I'm a realist so I don't think that it will be able to compete with Twitter. However I would like this project to become the go-to option for people who are already inclined to prefer decentralized/self-hosted solutions, and simply be better than the other software in that space. No, I don't plan to monetize. Mastodon is open-source, licensed under AGLPv3. However I do have a Patreon through which interested people could support me while I work on it.
- rayalez 10y agoI wish you luck! It doesnt have to become mainstream to be extremely valuable. If it could become a high quality niche community of geeks and hackers, like HN, it could be very awesome. Maybe it could be to twitter what HN is to reddit?