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fun fact: the app was built by HN user grishka, who previously worked on VK and Telegram Android clients. He’s got upset with the state of social media and turn
by ushakov 5y ago
fun fact: the app was built by HN user grishka, who previously worked on VK and Telegram Android clients. He’s got upset with the state of social media and turned to Mastodon/ActivityPub
- rapnie 5y agoHe's also the creator of Smithereen. "Federated, ActivityPub-compatible social network server with friends, walls, and groups". It is modeled after VK and federates with Mastodon. https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen
- ushakov 5y agothere is an old meme about VK users begging Pavel Durov (then CEO) to "Bring back the wall" "the wall" was basically a classic feed without the algorithms and bullshit Smithereen actually takes this idea to extreme and completely recreates 2011-era VK look and features and especially "the wall"
- sschueller 5y agoI wrote an android PeerTube client [1] (also activitypub) and I am also a HN user. ;) [1] https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android