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@mk I think that entire article has it wrong. User base growth is the wrong metric for success. Heck, even financial growth is the wrong metric for success. Look at most !GNUsocial instances, successful without any revenue at all. Of course, Twitter's investors may not think so, but I'm not one of them.
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@ostfriese Oh - this term isn't reserved for bank crashes. When 300 million accounts are used to this service there must be a very very big problem when they all are willing to leave it - and I really hope that these 300 million accounts don't switch to !gnusocial
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@benfell @hikerus @heluecht "contain and spam" is pretty much the business model of the walled garden systems
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@simsa0
First point: That is not true. You can start a queet at any time with any topic
Second point: It's really no complex - but it is not Twitter - so you have to uncerstand the difference. If you think !Gnusocial is Twitter, you are wrong.
My question: How long are you here?
@bobjonkman2
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As long as they set up their own instances I welcome all 300 million users of #Twitter to !GNUsocial
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As long as they set up their own instances I welcome all 300 million users of #Twitter to !GNUsocial
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I find !GNUsocial successful because it works for me. Having tech-oriented conversations actually makes GNUsocial more successful for me than #Twitter -- compare the hashtag #LaTeX on the two services and see the difference. And there are plenty of non-tech topics on other GNUsocial instances, see http://status.hackerposse.com/url/209 for example. Also, I don't see GNUsocial bein…
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@bobjonkman2 I especially like https://rainbowdash.net as an example of the larger diversity than just the !foss community using !gnusocial (or in their case actually StatusNet)
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@nds Indeed they do. They're a pretty long-lived community! From the identi.ca days before the pumpocalypse even.
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It's my server that's having trouble. My !GNUsocial instance is merely a victim.
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@simsa0 2) In the early days I too got frustrated by my lack of technical skills and hearing what the others discuss here about !GNUsocial itself. They were having a good time figuring out how to fix various issues and developing the future !fediverse . But their role was VITAL. It still is. Having people with technical skills (developers and other free software geeks) is vital for…
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@simsa0 !GNUsocial has complex usability? What are you smoking? It's the same as twitter, +extra features; it even uses the same client apps
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@simsa0 1) !Gnusocial is the technical platform. The content is given by users. So when "poetry, dance" isn't discussed further, this is really not the fault of !gnusocial. Politics and religion are not very good topics for social media platforms. 2) If people are not willing to learn something new and if they think !gnusocial is exactly a copy of twitter then this isn't…
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@simsa0 1) Again: !gnusocial is made and supported by volunteers - they spend their time to develop, to maintain and to fix the software. 2) They respond quickly to questions and reports - they are very helpful and bugs are fixed quickly. 3) When you have to criticizes something - no problem, but it depends of the "sound" - that is life. 4) If you have questions or problems…
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@andresinmp@loadaverage.org Check out my !GNUsocial Demonstration notes at http://sobac.com/presentations/ for installation instructions starting on page 2. Also, there's raw, unedited video of me doing the demonstration in December 2015 at https://archive.org/details/KWLUGGNUsocialPresentation Run the Nostrilcam and Screencap videos simultaneously for maximal multimedia effect.
Bob Jonkman
Hiker
Bob Mottram
MMN-o ✅⃠
Lohan G
Cyber Killer Ⓐ
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