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Nextcloud introduces social features, joins the fediverse

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Re: Nextcloud introduces social features, joins the fediverse

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Post by Kye »

creshal wrote: post #4

How about a working, documented plugin API? Or sync clients that work ? Instead of taping more random crap onto a base product that only barely works?

edit: I thought they were talking about ActivityPub since the issues look similar to ones people raise about it. Whoops.

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I am of two minds here:

1. Minimal specification worked for HTTP.

2. Most problems with HTTP come from it being minimally specified.

ActivityPub is exploding the way HTTP did. At worst, it's as imperfect as HTTP. At best, it's a way to get people used to federation for whatever comes next and improves on it.

Re: Nextcloud introduces social features, joins the fediverse

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

cjslep wrote: post #3

NextCloud, ForgeFed, ValueFlows, MoodleNet, Pleroma, Mastodon, PixelFed ("soon"), PeerTube, WriteFreely, Anancus... (so many more) The ActivityPub grassroots is slowly growing.

My hope is that as the fediverse grows, support becomes a must-have feature for any new social site/app. A nascent social site doesn't need to attract an initial core community if it can plug you into one that already exists.

Re: Nextcloud introduces social features, joins the fediverse

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Post by StavrosK »

Kye wrote: post #5
creshal wrote: post #4

How about a working, documented plugin API? Or sync clients that work ? Instead of taping more random crap onto a base product that only barely works?

edit: I thought they were talking about ActivityPub since the issues look similar to ones people raise about it. Whoops. - I am of two minds here: 1. Minimal specification worked for HTTP. 2. Most problems with HTTP come from it being minimally specified. ActivityPub is exploding the way HTTP did. At worst, it's as imperfect as HTTP. At best, it's a way to get people used to federation for whatever comes next and imp…

He's talking about NextCloud, not ActivityPub, by the way.

My experience has not been that it "barely works", it works quite well for me.

Re: Nextcloud introduces social features, joins the fediverse

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Post by artonge »

Kye wrote: post #5
creshal wrote: post #4

How about a working, documented plugin API? Or sync clients that work ? Instead of taping more random crap onto a base product that only barely works?

edit: I thought they were talking about ActivityPub since the issues look similar to ones people raise about it. Whoops. - I am of two minds here: 1. Minimal specification worked for HTTP. 2. Most problems with HTTP come from it being minimally specified. ActivityPub is exploding the way HTTP did. At worst, it's as imperfect as HTTP. At best, it's a way to get people used to federation for whatever comes next and imp…

I think parent talk about nextcloud and their plugin documentation being pore and their slow sync client.

I agree with him, they put a lot of energy on non crucial features when a lot of their core features could be improved.

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