Nextcloud introduces social features, joins the fediverse

Post by kop316 » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 12:50 AM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #87

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I use Nextcloud and it is an integral part of my life, but your current set up does not allow me to pay you, as it focuses only on enterprise use case. If I may make a suggestion, could you make a page for donation, and then you can have a "put your donation to Nextcloud to the following uses: - New features - Stablilty - Android Client development" I think you get the idea. I would very happily donate if I was given…

I like your 'vote with your wallet' idea for open source. Want to get that issue to the top of the ticket queue? Pay up! It makes perfect sense.

Post by type0 » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 1:17 AM UTC

dreamdu5t wrote: post #50

Am I the only one that hates that the “fediverse” is not on the web? We didn’t need a separate protocol/app and closed servers to do what are actually just blog posts and replies.

Post by jancsika » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 3:49 AM UTC

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Instances that don't police this get silenced or defederated. Much of the fediverse is made up of small invite-only instances that share information on bad actors like this. The bigger ones have mod teams and are generally run by people who don't equivocate on keeping bad actors to protect ad revenue. edit: This is, at a minimum, a good experiment to see if these kinds of propaganda are inherent to social media or on…

That's a start, but my concern is that the volunteer militia will get swamped and burnt out when the real attacks come. Right now Mastodon and other ActivityPub platforms are too small for a Cambridge Analytica / Russian FSB or other similar caliber actors to bother with. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. are where most of the users are so that's where most of the effort will go. If these platforms ever "tip" into m…

Post by guruz » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 9:24 AM UTC

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My knowledge is a year or two out of date, but I think “it’s all just webdav” is part of the problem, and they sort of painted themselves into a corner by using it as a protocol. They ended up with a bunch of extra API hacks on top of WebDAV for things like multiparty uploads, and things still go wonky if you try to connect a random WebDAV client to it. I built an ownCloud file storage replacement that worked with th…

The synchronization is a nightmare. The C++ client is hard to figure out, and even harder to maintain as a customized solution. Worse, they don't get the usual benefit of C++ clients being lean and resource-friendly because they now ship with an embedded QT Webbrowser.

Post by VikLogger » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 2:48 PM UTC

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Let's be honest, if we did a release with only stabilization, it might get us more users. Not more customers. And it is customers who pay for the development. Everyone asks us to focus "on the basics" and then claim their pet feature requests are, of course, basics. ACL's and user mgmt in your case, perfectly fine features, but features nonetheless. In the end, our development is guided by the community and customers…

Thanks for your work on Nextcloud! I really appreciate what it does. Also thanks for taking the time to answer my rant ;) On a positive note: Just upgraded to Nextcloud 15 without any issues in a few minutes. I feel it's getting better with every release. You put in a lot of work and I recently logged into an Owncloud 8 install and it's a night and day difference. I'm also aware that you owe me nothing. I'm fine with…