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Rstat.us - Distributed Twitter with Ruby and ostatus

76 points by netherland 16y ago

zimbatm 16y ago
It's nice to have choice, but I'm wondering when people will be able to install those applications themselves. Services are so web 2.0 :-p
- mcantelon 16y ago
  Status.net uses OStatus and is open source: http://status.net/open-source http://status.net/open-source
mbreese 16y ago
Why do people keep coming up with new open source applications to compete with Twitter (and a lesser extent Facebook)? The way to disrupt these isn't with an application -- it's with a protocol.
- hvs 16y ago
  They all use the same protocol: ostatus
apgwoz 16y ago
My first thought: why not use (and contribute to) StatusNet? My second thought: who wants to contribute to a PHP project (StatusNet)?
- sjs382 16y ago
  StatusNet uses ostatus. So does rstat.us.
  - paulosman 16y ago
    Exactly. And the point of standards like OStatus (and it's component specs) is that we don't all have to be using (or contributing to) the same software... instead we can build a myriad of apps that work together.
  - apgwoz 16y ago
    Of course. They (StatusNet) were actually the authors of it (I believe). I'm not against having multiple implementations by any means. It just seems very knee jerk to start your own so quickly. "I hate Twitter. Hey, use my version of Twitter that's open, but allows you to sign in with Twitter." Then again, he might have decided that StatusNet has too many dependencies and was looking for something super simple--I don't know.
davidcollantes 16y ago
Is there a way to run it (maybe not now, but in the future) not in Heroku?
- duck 16y ago
  You could run it anywhere, it is just a sinatra/rack app.
- chrislo 16y ago
  I don't see why not. It looks like a standard Rack application so you could follow any guide to deploying rack applications, for example using Passenger (http://www.modrails.com/documentation.html http://www.modrails.com/documentation.html) or Unicorn and nginx (http://blog.tomkersten.com/2010/11/14/nginx-unicorn-rvm-server-setup.html http://blog.tomkersten.com/2010/11/14/nginx-unicorn-rvm-serv...).
maxogden 16y ago
Pretty awesome! I've been working on a couchdb ostatus app for a few months. You guys can use the frontend if you want: http://github.com/maxogden/couchappspora http://github.com/maxogden/couchappspora
ram9 16y ago
Checkout the unhosted.org project for a group that is taking on this project large scaple.

76 points by netherland 16y ago

It's nice to have choice, but I'm wondering when people will be able to install those applications themselves. Services are so web 2.0 :-p

mcantelon 16y ago
Status.net uses OStatus and is open source: http://status.net/open-source http://status.net/open-source

mbreese 16y ago

Why do people keep coming up with new open source applications to compete with Twitter (and a lesser extent Facebook)? The way to disrupt these isn't with an application -- it's with a protocol.

hvs 16y ago
They all use the same protocol: ostatus

apgwoz 16y ago

My first thought: why not use (and contribute to) StatusNet? My second thought: who wants to contribute to a PHP project (StatusNet)?

sjs382 16y ago
StatusNet uses ostatus. So does rstat.us.
- paulosman 16y ago
  Exactly. And the point of standards like OStatus (and it's component specs) is that we don't all have to be using (or contributing to) the same software... instead we can build a myriad of apps that work together.
- apgwoz 16y ago
  Of course. They (StatusNet) were actually the authors of it (I believe). I'm not against having multiple implementations by any means. It just seems very knee jerk to start your own so quickly. "I hate Twitter. Hey, use my version of Twitter that's open, but allows you to sign in with Twitter." Then again, he might have decided that StatusNet has too many dependencies and was looking for something super simple--I don't know.

davidcollantes 16y ago

Is there a way to run it (maybe not now, but in the future) not in Heroku?

duck 16y ago
You could run it anywhere, it is just a sinatra/rack app.
chrislo 16y ago
I don't see why not. It looks like a standard Rack application so you could follow any guide to deploying rack applications, for example using Passenger (http://www.modrails.com/documentation.html http://www.modrails.com/documentation.html) or Unicorn and nginx (http://blog.tomkersten.com/2010/11/14/nginx-unicorn-rvm-server-setup.html http://blog.tomkersten.com/2010/11/14/nginx-unicorn-rvm-serv...).

maxogden 16y ago

Pretty awesome! I've been working on a couchdb ostatus app for a few months. You guys can use the frontend if you want: http://github.com/maxogden/couchappspora http://github.com/maxogden/couchappspora

ram9 16y ago

Checkout the unhosted.org project for a group that is taking on this project large scaple.