There is too much trolling on Twitter as the character limit does not allow for any serious argument. An ambiguous one-liner from a popular individual triggers thousands of replies and retweets. I've been thinking that we need a Twitter alternative, but with a minimum limit on the number of characters and no images or gifs. Setting a minimum limit to perhaps 300 - 500 characters will eliminate much of the trolling an…
Blërg, a microblogging platform
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Re: Blërg, a microblogging platform
#42The last-modified headers indicate that the front page and docs have not been updated since May 2018. This is not a viable platform and the analysis of Twitter's technical shortcomings is facile. The original 140 character limit, now doubled to 280 characters, was originally constrained by the SMS interface Twitter supported but ultimately imposes a preferred content style that distinguishes the microblogging experie…
> The last-modified headers indicate that the front page and docs have not been updated since May 2018. This is not a viable platform and the analysis of Twitter's technical shortcomings is facile. The original 140 character limit, now doubled to 280 characters, was originally constrained by the SMS interface Twitter supported but ultimately imposes a preferred content style that distinguishes the microblogging experience.
Your analysis of Blerg's analysis of Twitter's technical shortcomings is facile. It's a system that the author put together while intoxicated to poke fun at Twitter. Reading any more into it than that is at best highly unadvised.
(Source: Used to live with Blerg's author)
Re: Blërg, a microblogging platform
#43Will it be editorial (retain censoring rights) or, instead, a platform (true freedom of expression)?
It will be focused on the true expression of a small bird vomiting whatever it had for lunch.
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#44Unnecessary "complicated" name? Check!
Butt-ugly interface? Check!
Mentioning the technology used to build it as it were a feature? Check!
So a typical tool created by a developer who thinks the average guy think and act like them.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Slightly off topic, but someone should sell Fediverse in a box. I should be able to go buy a physical credit card sized thing which I plug into my wifi and everything is setup for me. Is someone working on something like that or is the Fediverse not ready for this yet?
I don't think it's the fediverse that's quite the problem. Two issues that I can think of that makes this harder to achieve: 1. You'll have to fuck around with router settings to forward the incoming traffic to that piece of hardware. 2. You'll have to have a domain, and fuck around with dynamically changing DNS settings because your IP is likely not static (this process depends on which DNS provider you choose to us…
To #1, you could have it join an overlay network.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is an active network of associative ISPs in France, and they have come up with an Internet-in-a-box thing: https://internetcu.be/ . Basically it tunnels everything to a VPN of your choice (so you bypass your residential limitations) and has a yunohost "OS", so you can install anything you want with a few clicks. I'm sure other projects have started something like that, but I can't find them
FreedomBox[1] is another project like that. The main issue plaguing these things (in my opinion) is the "jack of all trades, master of none" problem. It does a lot, but does none of them outstandingly well. I'd prefer to see FreedomBox just focus on having a best-in-class Matrix server for example. Another (more recent) example is Dappnode[2]. They are kinda like Sandstorm but only for node servers that are part of d…
What do you think is missing in mastering a specific usage, say Matrix ? It seems to me FreedomBox installs and configures a specific package, let's say synapse, along with the needed databases; what more can it do ?
internetcube uses yunohost, so the quality of the box depends much more on a project that isn't tied to this specific box and can leverage improvements made by other users. yunohost is used for people who want to self-host with a machine they already have, or with a VPS.
Re: Blërg, a microblogging platform
#47There is too much trolling on Twitter as the character limit does not allow for any serious argument. An ambiguous one-liner from a popular individual triggers thousands of replies and retweets. I've been thinking that we need a Twitter alternative, but with a minimum limit on the number of characters and no images or gifs. Setting a minimum limit to perhaps 300 - 500 characters will eliminate much of the trolling an…
Relevant: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fixing-social-media
My current working hypothesis is that all efforts to "fix" social media are doomed to failure, because the thing that causes social media to become toxic isn't the "medium" part, it's the "social" part. Altering the medium will just add some color to the particulars of how it becomes toxic.
Re: Blërg, a microblogging platform
#48Unnecessary "complicated" name? Check! Butt-ugly interface? Check! Mentioning the technology used to build it as it were a feature? Check! So a typical tool created by a developer who thinks the average guy think and act like them.
I can personally guarantee you that the developer who built this is completely confident that nobody does or should think and act like he does.
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#49There is too much trolling on Twitter as the character limit does not allow for any serious argument. An ambiguous one-liner from a popular individual triggers thousands of replies and retweets. I've been thinking that we need a Twitter alternative, but with a minimum limit on the number of characters and no images or gifs. Setting a minimum limit to perhaps 300 - 500 characters will eliminate much of the trolling an…
You could start a Mastodon instance that ticks all those boxes and federate only with instances that follow these guidelines.
Re: Blërg, a microblogging platform
#50The last-modified headers indicate that the front page and docs have not been updated since May 2018. This is not a viable platform and the analysis of Twitter's technical shortcomings is facile. The original 140 character limit, now doubled to 280 characters, was originally constrained by the SMS interface Twitter supported but ultimately imposes a preferred content style that distinguishes the microblogging experie…
> The last-modified headers indicate that the front page and docs have not been updated since May 2018. This is not a viable platform and the analysis of Twitter's technical shortcomings is facile. The original 140 character limit, now doubled to 280 characters, was originally constrained by the SMS interface Twitter supported but ultimately imposes a preferred content style that distinguishes the microblogging exper…
> It's a system that the author put together while intoxicated to poke fun at Twitter.
The HN title is "a microblogging platform", the landing page has a section titled "But what's wrong with Twitter?", and the documentation has a "Design" [1] section. If the author intended to poke fun at Twitter as a stand-in for all microblogging platforms then leave out the engineering aspects and if the author intended to poke fun at Twitter engineering then land some technical blows. If the point of the exercise is to demonstrate how much code and documentation can be pumped out during a drinking binge then the author should state that upfront; that context is useful.