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Mastodon is pretty underrated, I tried it a couple years ago and was unimpressed. I just tried it again today after all of the news about facebook and feel very

by swiley 9y ago

Mastodon is pretty underrated, I tried it a couple years ago and was unimpressed. I just tried it again today after all of the news about facebook and feel very differently. Now they have a nice web UI (nicer than most IMO, which I didn't think they'd be able to pull off with it being federated) and some really nice desktop clients (I really like madonctl with ansi colors enabled, I just added it to my .fvwmrc.)

fastball 9y ago
I like Mastodon as well but I really wish it was more than just twitteresque content. I want to be able to have photo albums and such on there as well.
- webmaven 9y ago
  For that, check out MediaGoblin (also implementing ActivityPub for interoperability): https://mediagoblin.org/ https://mediagoblin.org/
  - crowbahr 9y ago
    Now where is the reddit alternative?
    - sdrothrock 9y ago
      It was open-sourced, so reddit's alternative would be reddit... IIRC, the main competitor (voat) is based off of that source.
      - crowbahr 9y ago
        Sure while "Voat" is an alternative they're both centralized. I'm meaning decentralized reddit. Servers as subreddits, federated multi-reddits, only registered server accounts can vote on certain pieces, server by server moderation etc.
        e1ven 9y ago
        I had written a mostly functional system based around exchanging gpg-signed anonymous messages, usenet style a few years ago, with distributed voting, opt-in moderation, and server federation. https://github.com/e1ven/tavern https://github.com/e1ven/tavern I eventually moved on because I couldn't figure out how to solve some of the social problems, but I still think something like that could work out.
        webmaven 9y ago
        Do you have a document (or a set of issues) describing the social problems you were trying to solve? They may have already been solved, in some other context.
    - SSLy 9y ago
      It's called Usenet.
      - crowbahr 9y ago
        Look Usenet is nice and all but it's not a forum system and it's definitely not a reddit substitute. It is decentralized though, which is great.
        dragonwriter 9y ago
        > Look Usenet is nice and all but it's not a forum system That's exactly what Usenet is, and Usenet with 1990-era terminal clients was superior in most respects to most current web-based forum systems.
        webmaven 9y ago
        Heck, 1996-era GUI clients are also superior in most respects. Jon Udell wrote an excellent book in 1999 on building collaborative systems with NNTP servers, web technologies, etc.: https://archive.org/details/practicalinterne00udel https://archive.org/details/practicalinterne00udel

by swiley 9y ago

fastball 9y ago

I like Mastodon as well but I really wish it was more than just twitteresque content. I want to be able to have photo albums and such on there as well.

webmaven 9y ago
For that, check out MediaGoblin (also implementing ActivityPub for interoperability): https://mediagoblin.org/ https://mediagoblin.org/
- crowbahr 9y ago
  Now where is the reddit alternative?
  - sdrothrock 9y ago
    It was open-sourced, so reddit's alternative would be reddit... IIRC, the main competitor (voat) is based off of that source.
    - crowbahr 9y ago
      Sure while "Voat" is an alternative they're both centralized. I'm meaning decentralized reddit. Servers as subreddits, federated multi-reddits, only registered server accounts can vote on certain pieces, server by server moderation etc.
      - e1ven 9y ago
        I had written a mostly functional system based around exchanging gpg-signed anonymous messages, usenet style a few years ago, with distributed voting, opt-in moderation, and server federation. https://github.com/e1ven/tavern https://github.com/e1ven/tavern I eventually moved on because I couldn't figure out how to solve some of the social problems, but I still think something like that could work out.
        webmaven 9y ago
        Do you have a document (or a set of issues) describing the social problems you were trying to solve? They may have already been solved, in some other context.
  - SSLy 9y ago
    It's called Usenet.
    - crowbahr 9y ago
      Look Usenet is nice and all but it's not a forum system and it's definitely not a reddit substitute. It is decentralized though, which is great.
      - dragonwriter 9y ago
        > Look Usenet is nice and all but it's not a forum system That's exactly what Usenet is, and Usenet with 1990-era terminal clients was superior in most respects to most current web-based forum systems.
        webmaven 9y ago
        Heck, 1996-era GUI clients are also superior in most respects. Jon Udell wrote an excellent book in 1999 on building collaborative systems with NNTP servers, web technologies, etc.: https://archive.org/details/practicalinterne00udel https://archive.org/details/practicalinterne00udel