Notices by musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net), page 172
musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Apr-2018 16:31:06 EDT
musicmanfor all of you making clones, forks, and compatible thingies for GNU Social...it's be nice if you could like and share the trending posts directly from the trending module. Sure, I could file a formal feature request. Perhaps I will, but I'll probably forget when I get home.
This was my assumption based on intuition. Facebook self-boosts things that get a lot of likes, so there is some chance that Facebook will end up winning, but it's 24 to 5 right now. You would think these sorts of numbers would be important for businesses and maybe they would be if there's a real marketing study about it. Maybe I'll mention it at work. The head of VCS marketing was the matron of honor at my wedding...I'm not sure if that makes me more or less likely to be written off as a free software kook but at least it won't be weird to just randomly give her the info.
I often here how there's no one in the fediverse and that's why people don't drop facebook, but I get pretty shit post interaction on facebook. Maybe it's just because I don't post about whatever the most popular thing at the time is. It's already interesting for example that I have 14 likes here and zero on Google Plus and twitter combined. I don't think it necessarily says that twitter is a dead platform, but it's interesting.
Seems like getting Diaspora and pump talking to GNU Social more important than YASN. I guess it's mostly just interesting that I never ever here anyone talk about working on GNU Social. Do people do that?
I don't think one of them has a name, just "I'm working on a GNU Social clone" -- and actually, I saw posts about Mastodon and postActiv, but I wasn't including those in my two. The other is like Plemora or something. I'd have to go back and look.
"I'm working on a GNU Social clone"...I don't know if that means it's literally a fork. I suspect not. But the crux of the question is still there...is there some reason people don't just contribute to the software already out there? I never really followed the whole Mastodon thing. The fact that it doesn't have groups is a decision I don't understand, but without knowing the code, maybe there is a reason...but I still don't understand why not to fix those issues is the next version of GNU Social.
Article on Techcrunch: "RSS is undead". First line: "RSS died"
I've become a lot more jaded about tech takes by tech magazines after Mastodon. RSS never died it's just not trendy enough that you hear people talk about it. Every WordPress blog on the net has an RSS feed. Every webcomic. Every news site. Including Techcrunch.