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Mastodon was at one point a rewrite of GNU social in Ruby/Rails and I urged Eugen to at least change the license to AGPL to match. Identi.ca was a lot of fun,
by mattl 5y ago
Mastodon was at one point a rewrite of GNU social in Ruby/Rails and I urged Eugen to at least change the license to AGPL to match.
Identi.ca was a lot of fun, but it was basically a silo. I’m glad to see Mastodon having lots of servers but I feel like Mastodon.social runs the risk of being seen as the only instance that matters to many.
- riffic 5y agoI'm really excited to see that GNU social is still alive and kicking (https://www.gnusocial.rocks/ https://www.gnusocial.rocks/), I had almost written it off as a dead project. I firmly believe that as a whole, the Fediverse needs diversity in software implementations. While I like Mastodon, I don't like to see the Fediverse heavily weighted towards being the "Mastoverse". As much as I myself cheer Mastodon on, people should also be cheering on all the other component projects that make up the network.
- mattl 5y agoYeah, I steer very clear away from it now. I'm not really interested in writing code these days other than to help myself with my own small problems.