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GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
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Re: GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
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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.
From that list, I only have a google account. I tried the link for the Profile URL, but it's sending a 404. Perhaps that's because they've gotten rid of their Openid implementation as you say.
I'm sure there are ways around it. The point I was trying to make is that I thought that there would be more effort put into a frictionless signup.
To be fair, I haven't checked out the other sites linked from the gnu page, so I don't know if they have a better experience.
Re: GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
#73Reading the comments here it seems that people are missing the point by just joining one of those instances. It is not about just using some alternative to Twitter, the real advantage begins when you host it yourself so that you can own your own content and post whatever you want (not what some company wants you to) and (perhaps) syndicate to other services like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc. I just gave a small tal…
GNU Social is similar in concept to the POSSE (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere) idea, isn't it?
As far as I can see GNU Social only POSSEs to Twitter, but that is a good start anyway.
Re: GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
#74I used to be a big Indent.ca fan, it used to run on status.net foss. Apparently now it is pump.io, a foss micro-blogging service. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/StatusNet
There is also the whole tent protocol and camping.io thing. I stopped trying to follow years ago though.
Re: GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
#75A bit odd to see them all labeled "runs out of Europe". I understand why they do this, but it's not like European hosting is a bullet proof solution for invasive snooping or data requisition.
Europeans in Europe can take countries etc to their local courts, or to the European Court of Human Rights, or the Court of Justice of the European Union. Europeans are not able to take any court case against the US government in US courts.
Re: GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always saw intellectual property rights as a hack to try and encourage the production of non-rivalrous goods. The scarcity is in some sense enforced and artificial, and there's a strong argument to be made that they aren't they aren't "natural" property rights in the same sense as you get with rivalrous goods. I think pro-capitalist (mostly libertarian) thought on this matter is divided.
> The scarcity is in some sense enforced and artificial The problem is, you can mount the very same argument even in the case of normal property rights. At the beginnings of capitalism, the scarcity was in fact enforced by means of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure . IMHO, most libertarians are used to idea normal property and take it for "natural", but not so in the "intellectual" world of ideas. It is partly…
You have the draw the line somewhere and using physical boundaries is quite useful. It create a natural distinction.
The problem with IP is that there isn't any limit to it. A driver license is not more or less a property than a patent, but it acts wastingly different. Can I sell a driver license? can I rent it? Can I cut it into two different part and give a friend half of it? What makes the exclusivity of state granted driver license a non-property, in contrast to the state granted exclusivity of an patent?
Re: GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
#77The https://quitter.se anti-capitalist message didn't resonate with me, so I joined the https://gnusocial.no federation. Much friendlier :)
Trending tags: #anarchy, #antifa, #nonazis etc. No thanks, I'll pass.
Re: GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
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What makes him anarchist?
His core ideas of free software are based on the concept of being free from control over it. The idea is anarchistic since by controlling the software and computing technology one controls society in some way, and the more technology is intertwined with social aspects (which gradually happens the more technology progresses), the higher is that level of control.
You could just as well argue that his ideas are democratic, giving power to larger groups of people than before.
Teaching the people to run their own services sounds pretty similar to what happened during the enlightenment, when people were taught to read at a large scale for the first time.
Re: GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
His core ideas of free software are based on the concept of being free from control over it. The idea is anarchistic since by controlling the software and computing technology one controls society in some way, and the more technology is intertwined with social aspects (which gradually happens the more technology progresses), the higher is that level of control.
You could just as well argue that his ideas are democratic, giving power to larger groups of people than before. Teaching the people to run their own services sounds pretty similar to what happened during the enlightenment, when people were taught to read at a large scale for the first time.
Anarchism is by nature truly democratic, except that it aims to avoid hierarchical powers.
Re: GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
#80Reading the comments here it seems that people are missing the point by just joining one of those instances. It is not about just using some alternative to Twitter, the real advantage begins when you host it yourself so that you can own your own content and post whatever you want (not what some company wants you to) and (perhaps) syndicate to other services like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc. I just gave a small tal…
I don't see hosting myself as an advantage. In the end, all you do all day is to maintain all the tools and apps that you host yourself.
Not really. I've been running a Jabber server and a GNU Social node for about a year now and I can tell you it takes maybe 1 hour a week of my time for patching.
I have automatic security updates enabled on both systems but I tend to login from time to time and do a dist-upgrade on them manually.