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Nice! I was preparing myself for a rant against yet another proprietary "decentralized" platform, when I read that this is GNU Social compatible :-). This is gr
by captainmuon 10y ago
Nice! I was preparing myself for a rant against yet another proprietary "decentralized" platform, when I read that this is GNU Social compatible :-). This is great, maybe some more (compatible) competition will do the network good. The current offerings like GNUsocial are not quite as polished as e.g. Facebook and Twitter.
One little suggestion, I can't see anything of your network when I visit the main page. I'm hesitant to sign up for something if I can't see it. Maybe you could add a list of users of the instance / network, public tweets, etc. Or even better, publish a link to a (public) profile, so users can get an idea what it looks like in use.
(If I'd make a federated microblogging / social network site, I would center it around the profile page. I'd make it at first glance less about networking and more about presenting yourself. Like the early Facebook, or MySpace. This way, a user has an incentive to sign up even if no or only few friends are on the network yet. You'd be able to customize your page a lot, leave contact data, write (micro) blog posts, have a wall (guestbook) etc... And almost incidentally you'd be able to use your identity to comment on GNUSocial, use XMPP, OpenID, ....)
- daveid 10y agoHere is my profile: https://mastodon.social/users/Gargron https://mastodon.social/users/Gargron I also made a demo video (linked in the README): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO1jQ8_rAMU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO1jQ8_rAMU I realize that a public timeline would be a good addition.
- davidcollantes 10y ago@daveid, are there instructions on how to get Mastodon running without Docker? Very nice looking app, thanks!
- midgetjones 10y agoIt looks like a standard Rails app, so you should just be able to clone the repo and google the rest.
- Zash 10y agoRe GNU Social polish, have you seen the frontend Qvitter? Eg https://quitter.se/ https://quitter.se/ and repo at https://git.gnu.io/h2p/Qvitter https://git.gnu.io/h2p/Qvitter
- erikb 10y agoabsolutely right. If it shouldn't be a walled garden the entry shouldn't be walled. Would be cool to see like a list of most popular users or a list of most recent posts or something.
- catscratch 10y ago> Nice! I was preparing myself for a rant against yet another proprietary "decentralized" platform, when I read that this is GNU Social compatible :-). Same here, but I stopped because it looks like a better version of Twitter. I'd use this interface any day of the week! Now we just need FSF to host it and provide a mobile version that works on free devices... and we need free devices... and my internet needs to be free... and the whole network needs to be free...
- ablation 10y agoThe interface reminded me very strongly of Tweetdeck.