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Re: Twitter Killing Its Mac App

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Post by ttepasse »

rocky1138 wrote: post #100
SyneRyder wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally if I have to jump from Twitter, I'm more likely to switch to Micro.blog [1]. Everything is posted to your own site as an RSS post, and it already has iPhone and Mac apps. And of course, it has an API for making your own apps. [1] https://micro.blog/about

Does it support OStatus?

It seems that Microblog is a mixture of Feeds and the Indieweb, namely the Micropub API which originated there: http://help.micro.blog/2017/api-posting/

Btw: Isn't ActivityPub the new OStatus?

Re: Twitter Killing Its Mac App

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Post by SyneRyder »

ttepasse wrote: post #101
rocky1138 wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it support OStatus?

It seems that Microblog is a mixture of Feeds and the Indieweb, namely the Micropub API which originated there: http://help.micro.blog/2017/api-posting/ Btw: Isn't ActivityPub the new OStatus?

Might also be worth pointing out that Micropub is a W3C Recommendation [1], and I think MicroPub and ActivityPub are meant to work together [2].

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/micropub/

[2] https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5286

Re: Twitter Killing Its Mac App

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Post by rocky1138 »

beeflaw wrote: post #97
rocky1138 wrote: post #66

Can we channel all the anger and frustration this has caused into switching to Mastodon/GNU Social? Open standards, run your own if you want, nobody deprecating or discontinuing anything.

I'm still looking for an "open" alternative that is strong on free speech without being home turf for white identitarians (gab.ai). Looking an Mastadon's policies makes me give up hope: https://mastodon.social/about/more

You can run your own and follow who you want. What's more free than that?

Re: Twitter Killing Its Mac App

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Post by rocky1138 »

lokedhs wrote: post #79
rocky1138 wrote: post #66

Can we channel all the anger and frustration this has caused into switching to Mastodon/GNU Social? Open standards, run your own if you want, nobody deprecating or discontinuing anything.

I tried Twitter a long time ago, and never enjoyed it. I've been quite active on Mastodon (@loke@functional.cafe) for the last several months, and enjoying it a lot. It's not perfect, but it gives me more satisfaction than Twitter ever could. The biggest problem with Mastodon at the moment is discoverability. It takes some effort finding the right people to follow but I've found a reasonable group of people who are i…

I'd love to read more on how you found those people. I completely agree that discoverability is a huge problem.

Re: Twitter Killing Its Mac App

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Post by dang »

asantos3 wrote: post #95
dang wrote: post #92

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You can't attack someone like that on HN, regardless of how bad you consider their software. We ban accounts that do this, so could you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html , and take the spirit of this site to heart when commenting here?

I didn't attack him, I'm attacking eul. A piece of software that he's promoting ages ago here that could smell malware. If you want to keep beslaver, do it, if you want to ban me, do it.

I don't want to ban you! But HN has the rules it does for a good reason: if people routinely break them, other users will do even worse. That way leads to the destruction of the site.

Think of it as an optimization problem. Even if all your points are correct, posting like you did above is to choose a local optimum (maximum sharpness for your points) over the global optimum (having an interesting community based on curiosity). That's a bad solution, especially since it's easy to make your substantive points in a civil way.

Re: Twitter Killing Its Mac App

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Post by pharrington »

owenversteeg wrote: post #73
asantos3 wrote: post #62

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I'm calling bullshit on you, your shenanigans and all of the blind idiots. 1. I can't download past versions and there's no current version to download till tomorrow. Why... 2. You have no github and hn history besides spamming the shit of eul and I can't trust no proprietary third party shit. 4. Do you really think you can open source something that could bite your ass legally (whatsapp)? Will you partially open sou…

Ok, I'll bite. After checking out the guy and his project, it seems like he's really truly passionate about making minimal, fast software. I love it: I do a similar thing myself (I made the smallest, fastest CSS framework.) I can tell it in his comments and the effort he's put into this. It's a totally unique project, and as far as I can google, it's the only one of its kind. In a world of massive, bloated apps that…

Additionally, he's registered eul.im as a private company.

The registration info is trivially available by searching the company #(11072989) on his website. He is a Netherlands resident who registered eul.im as a one person UK software company. At least 10,000 other companies use the same postal address as eul.im. The software in question, as everyone agrees, has no revenue model, and isn't even currently available for download. [text on website reads "Download v0.27 (out on Feb 17, for real, no more delays)"]. This precisely fits the pattern of a shell corporation.

Re: Twitter Killing Its Mac App

#107

Post by skinnymuch »

lokedhs wrote: post #79
rocky1138 wrote: post #66

Can we channel all the anger and frustration this has caused into switching to Mastodon/GNU Social? Open standards, run your own if you want, nobody deprecating or discontinuing anything.

I tried Twitter a long time ago, and never enjoyed it. I've been quite active on Mastodon (@loke@functional.cafe) for the last several months, and enjoying it a lot. It's not perfect, but it gives me more satisfaction than Twitter ever could. The biggest problem with Mastodon at the moment is discoverability. It takes some effort finding the right people to follow but I've found a reasonable group of people who are i…

I am really interested in how you found people too.

Re: Twitter Killing Its Mac App

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Post by lokedhs »

skinnymuch wrote: post #107
lokedhs wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried Twitter a long time ago, and never enjoyed it. I've been quite active on Mastodon (@loke@functional.cafe) for the last several months, and enjoying it a lot. It's not perfect, but it gives me more satisfaction than Twitter ever could. The biggest problem with Mastodon at the moment is discoverability. It takes some effort finding the right people to follow but I've found a reasonable group of people who are i…

I am really interested in how you found people too.

I joined an instance which focuses on the things I'm interested in, and look at the local timeline. That timeline contains original posts (i.e. not replies) posted from that instance. I'd follow pretty much anyone posting anything remotely interesting.

A lot of people tend to boost interesting posts, and following people whose posts gets boosted allows you to grow your follow list with interesting posts.

Unfollowing people that keeps posting uninteresting things is also important of course.

Re: Twitter Killing Its Mac App

#109

Post by rkuykendall-com »

fishtoaster wrote: post #5

It seems like this has been a while coming. The Mac app still hadn't been updated to support 280 characters when I finally ditched it a couple weeks ago (in favor of Tweetbot). If they couldn't push out a change like that in 3 months, the app has probably not been maintained for quite a while.

I also ditched a few weeks ago for Tweetbot. The official Twitter app still uses square avatars and, the real killer bug, no longer supports pictures. pic.twitter.com links just send you to the tweet recursively.

Re: Twitter Killing Its Mac App

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Post by amedvednikov »

hrrsn wrote: post #61
amedvednikov wrote: post #32

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I'm working on a desktop client for Twitter, FB, Slack etc. It's pretty snappy and weighs only 90 KB (!) https://eul.im Twitter support is coming later this month.

This looks great. Does it support Slack threads?

It will. In March.
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