“The origin story of Pixelfed does have its roots in GNU social — and we've been heavily inspired by Mastodon as well.”
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The amazing feeling of discovering that The Archive Of Our Own has a character tag for "Fediverse Network/Mastadon Platform (Anthropomorphic)", followed by the disappointment of finding only a single #fanfic using that tag. I wanted to read a bunch of erotic #Misskey #fanfiction about all that […]
@Alexandre Oliva so why's you pick #snac over say #GNUSOCIAL?
The Fediverse owes its existence to a company that was no different from Bluesky. Like Bluesky, StatusNet was a company with software named after it (now GNU Social), and its goal was to federate microblogging. Their software used a protocol called OStatus. It was based on hodgepodge of other software and saw little adoption. Mastodon was one of the few exceptions and soon became the dominant federated platform. Meanwhile, StatusNet decided to start from scratch and created ActivityPub with Pump.io as their testing ground. When it was done, they handed it over to W3C. Bluesky has a similar roadmap. So while I get your concerns, give these people some slack. The developers of Bluesky had the rug pulled under them twice. First, Dorsey left when they added stricter user moderation, and then Elon took over Twitter, their primary source of funding. Naturally, Elon sees Bluesky as a threat and target now. The last thing these people need is the Fediverse, the one group who share similar visions, shunning them too. This isn't Threads.
From @tonytins on the history of the Fediverse, Mastodon, and ActivityPub, and how it has similarities to Bluesky's history.
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#ActivityPub #BlueSky #DeSo #GNUSocial #Mastodon #OStatud #StatusNet
The #GNUSocial instance on loadaverage dot org that I signed up for a few years ago is still dead, it appears; I wish someone would bring it back…
Anyone know what happened to the #GNUSocial instance on https://loadaverage.org/ since the last time I visited? I'm getting a 502 Bad Gateway from it...
For people looking to #DeleteFacebook I'd like to suggest migrating to #GNUSocial; not many other people are on it yet, but it #RespectsYourFreedom as the @fsf defines it. My profile is on the #loadaverage instance: https://loadaverage.org/egall
I'm now #BlockedByZeroHedge on Twitter... better remember to do likewise on #GNUSocial too, you inequality-promoting scumbags
#GNUSocial is still pretty unlikely to take off, unfortunately. #UnlikelyFacebookAlternatives
I'm on #GNUSocial now: https://loadaverage.org/egall
Looking at the list of #GNUSocial instances on https://gnu.io/social/try/ and I can't decide which one to join... I'm a techie but I'd also be a new user coming from trying to quit other social networks, so...
#gnusocial from an end users perspective: http://bit.ly/9dJIN7 (spotter @danbri). #foaf #foaf_ssl #sioc #xmpp #http #mailto #linkeddata #eav
