tallship@blaine
Yes Indeed, I concur, and just mentioned this sort of thing to @aral last night, and further, posing the question as to whether the brand leader is migrating towards a #mastobook or #facetodon type of model akin to that of the #deprecated, privacy disrespecting, #legacy #monolithic #silo business model.
But not mastodon - that's where I diverge from your suggestion. And funny get me wrong either; I'm not saying it shouldn't include mastodon as well. It's just that there's no such thing as a mastodon network - it's the #Fediverse, and there's a whole heckuva lot more than just mastodon.
At this point I'm not even completely confident calling @darius 's #Hometown *fork* mastodon - he's done (and is doing) an amazing job and but just that, but he's taken a smidget of observation and deduction along with an ear to the ground with respect to the wishes of his community and the administrators that have sites adopted the Fediverse platform that he's created from what many other devs are privately calling an obsolete platform.
Or at least, it's easy to say that he's breathed me life into the lackluster predecessor of Hometown.
When mastodon itself can only #grep local data for results, and then you create a #hashtag following feature - it serves little to no use on either single user #smallweb or smaller community based instances - i.e., it's virtually worthless IMO, and #Fedilab itself was just explaining yesterday their superior festure that obviated that mastodon feature.
In fact, @Gled introduced several improvements (especially with respect to search capabilities that other Fediverse servers have been light-years ahead of mastodon on) that began to seriously overshadow msstodon at the time, and when, out of frustration he shut down his "Mastodo" fork, he took the time to offer an assessment of the state of mastodon at the time, recommending that #Administrators and #self_hosters switch from that platform to #Pleroma instead - because it, "is a better implementation", and after a bit of testing, I can easily say the same thing about Hometown - it's s better implementation, by far, and the dev is approachable and attentive too.
https://github.com/gled-rs/mastodo
So smaller, single user (#MicroBlogPub?) and small community based (#Epicyon?) Fediverse server platforms like #Friendica, #Soapbox, #Quanta, #Mitra, #Calckey, and Hometown that are either self-hosted or hosted by inexpensive turnkey SaaS providers is ultimately where the directional pressure and influence should be at this time - considering we've met and crossed a critical mass threshold during the last three months.
Well that's my 2Âą, I hope that helps đ
All the best!
#tallship
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RT: https://mastodon.social/users/blaine/statuses/109700865228378185
Yes Indeed, I concur, and just mentioned this sort of thing to @aral last night, and further, posing the question as to whether the brand leader is migrating towards a #mastobook or #facetodon type of model akin to that of the #deprecated, privacy disrespecting, #legacy #monolithic #silo business model.
But not mastodon - that's where I diverge from your suggestion. And funny get me wrong either; I'm not saying it shouldn't include mastodon as well. It's just that there's no such thing as a mastodon network - it's the #Fediverse, and there's a whole heckuva lot more than just mastodon.
At this point I'm not even completely confident calling @darius 's #Hometown *fork* mastodon - he's done (and is doing) an amazing job and but just that, but he's taken a smidget of observation and deduction along with an ear to the ground with respect to the wishes of his community and the administrators that have sites adopted the Fediverse platform that he's created from what many other devs are privately calling an obsolete platform.
Or at least, it's easy to say that he's breathed me life into the lackluster predecessor of Hometown.
When mastodon itself can only #grep local data for results, and then you create a #hashtag following feature - it serves little to no use on either single user #smallweb or smaller community based instances - i.e., it's virtually worthless IMO, and #Fedilab itself was just explaining yesterday their superior festure that obviated that mastodon feature.
In fact, @Gled introduced several improvements (especially with respect to search capabilities that other Fediverse servers have been light-years ahead of mastodon on) that began to seriously overshadow msstodon at the time, and when, out of frustration he shut down his "Mastodo" fork, he took the time to offer an assessment of the state of mastodon at the time, recommending that #Administrators and #self_hosters switch from that platform to #Pleroma instead - because it, "is a better implementation", and after a bit of testing, I can easily say the same thing about Hometown - it's s better implementation, by far, and the dev is approachable and attentive too.
https://github.com/gled-rs/mastodo
So smaller, single user (#MicroBlogPub?) and small community based (#Epicyon?) Fediverse server platforms like #Friendica, #Soapbox, #Quanta, #Mitra, #Calckey, and Hometown that are either self-hosted or hosted by inexpensive turnkey SaaS providers is ultimately where the directional pressure and influence should be at this time - considering we've met and crossed a critical mass threshold during the last three months.
Well that's my 2Âą, I hope that helps đ
All the best!
#tallship
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RT: https://mastodon.social/users/blaine/statuses/109700865228378185
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