@Chao-c' The wiki reveals even different timeline:
"The wiki" sounds funny to someone who has three wikis of his own on his Hubzilla channel. Anyway...
To me, it seems, that Gargon simply was not as ...
@Jupiter Rowland BTW I had account on identi.ca, which was StatusNet powered (I believe).
Whatever the history was, the Mastodon is updated quite regularly and somehow makes sense. But as it is maintained by non-profit and not by startup, there is decent chance, that there will be no motivation to completely cut competing platforms, as you are fearmongering. We will see.
I agree, that PR strategy is crucial for decentralized systems, technology is definitely not enough.
One person releasing pro participating in way too much partially incompatible platforms seems not the right way to go... as I read your long history of federated social media.
I even believe new future platform is needed. It should be be integrated with decentralized search (like YaCy, but much better, using feedback from federated timeline) and aim to fully replace e-mail (long, end-to-end encrypted direct messages, with file attachments...) and also allow regular publishing (like blogposting using CMS).
Yes, and it should not be implemented in Ruby or PHP or something like that. I have seen one online discussion forum being rewritten from PHP to Rust few years ago, and the improvement in responsiveness of the web platform was amazing. (I do C, not Rust, but C is too oldschool now, and the performance penalty of Rust is minor, probably not noticeable at all)
So you really can't sell me Friendica or Hubzilla, but I may wish to participate in analysis or development of future federated tool, which would aim to replace search engine, web freemails (not being connected to anything but Fedi, no gateway to SMTP, but replacing e-mail functionality), also more chat-like format for direct messages, of course full timeline of statuses like Mastodon, but with more advanced blogging and calendar/event planing features.
Basically, I call for ActivityPub enable groupware, which would be more useful for small companies or nonprofit groups as replacement for not only Xitter, but also stuff like Teams.
Whatever the history was, the Mastodon is updated quite regularly and somehow makes sense. But as it is maintained by non-profit and not by startup, there is decent chance, that there will be no motivation to completely cut competing platforms, as you are fearmongering. We will see.
I agree, that PR strategy is crucial for decentralized systems, technology is definitely not enough.
One person releasing pro participating in way too much partially incompatible platforms seems not the right way to go... as I read your long history of federated social media.
I even believe new future platform is needed. It should be be integrated with decentralized search (like YaCy, but much better, using feedback from federated timeline) and aim to fully replace e-mail (long, end-to-end encrypted direct messages, with file attachments...) and also allow regular publishing (like blogposting using CMS).
Yes, and it should not be implemented in Ruby or PHP or something like that. I have seen one online discussion forum being rewritten from PHP to Rust few years ago, and the improvement in responsiveness of the web platform was amazing. (I do C, not Rust, but C is too oldschool now, and the performance penalty of Rust is minor, probably not noticeable at all)
So you really can't sell me Friendica or Hubzilla, but I may wish to participate in analysis or development of future federated tool, which would aim to replace search engine, web freemails (not being connected to anything but Fedi, no gateway to SMTP, but replacing e-mail functionality), also more chat-like format for direct messages, of course full timeline of statuses like Mastodon, but with more advanced blogging and calendar/event planing features.
Basically, I call for ActivityPub enable groupware, which would be more useful for small companies or nonprofit groups as replacement for not only Xitter, but also stuff like Teams.
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