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Looks pretty good from what I've seen. Set up an account for my site, posted a few messages to test how it works and found that everything seems pretty much as
by CM30 10y ago
Looks pretty good from what I've seen. Set up an account for my site, posted a few messages to test how it works and found that everything seems pretty much as I'd expect from a Twitter type site.
Gonna download the source and try out an instance at one point too.
However, I do have one question here:
How are you planning to differentiate this from other microblogging platforms with very similar feature sets and styles? I mean, GNU Social seems to be catching on a fair bit nowadays, and that feels a lot like this software too.
Is there a plan to make this the most popular 'federated microblogging network' rather than one of the other twenty or so out there already?
Just wondering.
- ZenoArrow 10y ago>"GNU Social seems to be catching on a fair bit nowadays, and that feels a lot like this software too." The GitHub page describes Mastodon as "An alternative implementation of the GNU social project". I'm guessing the two are compatible.
- riffic 10y agoGNU social is a PHP application and the underlying compatible protocol is OStatus (https://github.com/OStatus https://github.com/OStatus)
- ZenoArrow 10y agoThanks for the tip. Interesting to learn that the W3C is involved in the development of OStatus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OStatus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OStatus
- RileyKyeden 10y agoMastodon is packed with LGBTQ+ people and furries. This appeals to me in a way other platforms do not.
- virgil_disgr4ce 10y agor/Mastodon/This instance of Mastodon/ ;)
- RileyKyeden 10y agoI see a lot of instances popping up within this instance's community, and they all seem to fit that profile. Might be a biased perspective. :P
- daveid 10y agoIf you try GNU social and Mastodon I believe with a high confidence that you'll find that Mastodon is a much better execution of the idea. So yeah my goal is for this to be the most popular thing. But they're not mutually exclusive, GNU social is still the same network.