Is there a good way to publish to this at the same time as twitter, so I'm already established and can drop twitter when it dies?
Yes. In settings you can connect to your twitter account.
GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
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Re: GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
#12I don't get it. I went to gnusocial.no to join, and there's no link to sign up. I eventually found a register link off the help page (not visible on mobile for some reason), and I just get a messsage "Sorry, only invited people can register".
Do they want people to join this or not?
Re: GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
#13I'm going to need a bunch of "Share it on..." icons to annoyingly slap on all of my web pages :D
Re: GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
#14I don't get it. I went to gnusocial.no to join, and there's no link to sign up. I eventually found a register link off the help page (not visible on mobile for some reason), and I just get a messsage "Sorry, only invited people can register". Do they want people to join this or not?
You can't expect all GNU Social instances to be open for public registration, that's not what fedaration means. loadaverage.org seems to be open to everyone though. Also, do you have an OpenID?
Re: GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
#15The more interesting thing to do (for this crowd, at least) would be to run your own instance: https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/blob/master/INSTALL
Re: GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
#16I don't get it. I went to gnusocial.no to join, and there's no link to sign up. I eventually found a register link off the help page (not visible on mobile for some reason), and I just get a messsage "Sorry, only invited people can register". Do they want people to join this or not?
You can't expect all GNU Social instances to be open for public registration, that's not what fedaration means. loadaverage.org seems to be open to everyone though. Also, do you have an OpenID?
I would be amazed if someone doesn't have an account with any of these websites:
http://openid.net/get-an-openid/
Though I do believe Google has gotten rid of their Openid implementation entirely in favor of Openid Connect.
Re: GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
#17Copying the design of Twitter and Facebook. What a great way to make a good first impression and to respect the copyright the GNU project cares so much about. I can't imagine a better way to show everyone just how amazing you are. The free software community must be truly happy to have such amazing supporters on their side.
You can implement ostatus however you like. It just so happens the most popular implementations are just clones of the Facebook / Twitter looks because they are familiar.
There are more servers than just these, and most of them have unique UIs.
Re: GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
#18Stuff like this is never going to work, because it suffers from the chicken-and-egg problem. Everyone (who cares about Twitter or something like it) uses Twitter because everyone else uses Twitter. You can make an account on Quitter or Diaspora or any other decentralized FLOSS network, but it'll be useless because all your non-nerd friends (and most of your nerd friends too) won't have accounts there, and will contin…
I signed up and am having a great time. 3 people responded to my first message within a minute. Sure it doesn't replace existing communities or networks. But it's creating new ones right now. You just have to believe in it!
This. Your family doesn't use HN or reddit, but you do. You can use GNU Social the same way, and maybe it will attract your family to it over time as well.
(my mother has a reddit account, gods help me)
Re: GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
#19Stuff like this is never going to work, because it suffers from the chicken-and-egg problem. Everyone (who cares about Twitter or something like it) uses Twitter because everyone else uses Twitter. You can make an account on Quitter or Diaspora or any other decentralized FLOSS network, but it'll be useless because all your non-nerd friends (and most of your nerd friends too) won't have accounts there, and will contin…
I signed up and am having a great time. 3 people responded to my first message within a minute. Sure it doesn't replace existing communities or networks. But it's creating new ones right now. You just have to believe in it!
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Re: GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
#20I was excited to learn that GNU Social is in PHP, but quickly turned off because of the quality of the PHP code.