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@takeshitakenji Reminder: GNU social and postActiv do what Mastodon't
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@deavmi Yep! Myself and a few others are working on it.
More info here: www.postactiv.com (though I am going to redo the website when I'm up to it I think)
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@deavmi I have a full list of ongoing projects in the Gitlab project, but a quick rundown: Present different features: A redis-based queue handler that's fairly quicker than even the queuedaemons Better exception handling that puts much more debug data information in the log for troubleshooting The beginnings of a proper theme system based on Smarty Reogranization o…
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@deavmi Myself, @verius, @takeshitakenji, @archaeme, and @normandy have contributed to the project, thusfar.
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Er, I meant to put @moonman for the last one, I blame the autocompletion drop down thing in qvitter.
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@deavmi I have been resisting changes to the underlying protocol for this reason, despite some people wanting such, because this breaks compatability.
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@deavmi In my opinions, one of the reasons the Fediverse has been so resilient in terms of keeping a core userbase is because the underpinning software has been good about communicating with one another, a couple cases of bad behaviour in certain apps nonwithstanding, and I don't want to be the one to break it. Thankfully, the relevant standards have provided all the tools one needs, thusfar.
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@deavmi I think we saw from Pump how fragmenting the userbase goes, even if you have the best of intentions (which I think Evan and company did)
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@deavmi OStatus is a W3C standard, though what I think of the W3C is another topic entirely.
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@deavmi Yes. Actually the kind of tragic thing about it is the uptake in development activity recently has been happening in the midst of the actual pump network basically disintegrating due to servers disappearing, domains expiring, etc. While StatusNet/GNU social benefitted from not insignificant sponsorship to fund dev, Pump never found that kind of backing.
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@deavmi I am not against ADDING to the core protocol - quite the opposite in fact! But I think we should maintain that core functionality as is so that we don't break stuff for older instances like RDN.
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@deavmi They were the ones that were pushing to put DRM in web standards, yes.
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@deavmi rainbowdashnetwork, its one of the oldest instances on the fediverse, and it still uses StatusNet from when it was called StatusNet
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@deavmi Ultimately what actually gets functionally added to FOSS projects comes down to what people are willing to actually code and add.
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@deavmi DRM is #defectivebydesign
Any device that restricts my freedom has no place in the free software ecosystem.
http://defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm_digital_restrictions_management
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@louis That paragraph is actually taken verbatim from the GNU social project page and just modified to indicate it's a fork, but you're not wrong that it could be modified. (You can check here in case you don't believe me - http://status.hackerposse.com/url/8953) There's a lot of presentation things like that which I need to work on, I think. The website is basic…
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@louis What wording would you suggest? It's easy enough to change, but I'm curious what you or others would prefer.
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@louis You know just as an aside, I find it a little odd that an actual GNU project references the OSI stuff over FSF. Maybe it was never changed when GNU adopted it? I'm kind of curious now.
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@louis Just seems odd. Anyways, I will change that blurb when I can think of a better wording. 630 am when I didn't sleep all evening is not a good time for that :)
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@louis I am always willing to rebase specific changes of postActiv that GNU social desires to have.
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