Chuff²2d ago

@hollo

Been trying a GoSocial sorta, haven't really done much, but I did start accessing it through Phanpy. Nice enough, and I love Phanpy, but I don't see anything that makes it special, from a user stand point, there's nothing to distinguish it from Mastodon, Wafrn, etc, unless I'm missing something. Sure, supposedly its supposed to be easy and lightweight to host, but if you're not hosting, that doesn't really matter, does it?

I think my big complaint about GTS is the same I have for Snak, Hollos and all the other single user/small number of user AP software, they don't offer any features you can't get somewhere else. Look over at Friendica for what you could offer, Diaspora sharing in addition to AP, or maybe a built in RSS feed reader, or both. Or Wafrn and built in Bluesky support. Or to be original, maybe a queue function, perfect for flood control and enforcing good neighbor behavior.

@hollo


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Show threadralf g.
@chuff @hollo yes, but "easy and lightweight to host" is the important thing if you want to host your fediverse home yourself. If you just want to get an account somewhere on somebody’s server mastodon (or other solutions) with all its bells and whistle is a good choice, of course.
Apr 13 at 6:22pmWeb
Show threadChuff²2d ago

@r @hollo

Indeed, no complaints about that, its a good thing, but its just there's so many lightweight ones out there, I only named the two (three if'n you include GTS) that I can remember, so to me it seems it needs something to make it stand out to the users.

Show threadralf g.2d ago
@chuff @hollo It's a matter of personal taste I guess. I for example don't want a RSS reader in my fediverse software and look with a "wtf!" on my face when I see all the strange stuff that is scrolling around at a misskey instance. 😀 it's great that we have solutions for all tastes! 👍
Show threadChuff²2d ago

@r @hollo

Misskey is fun
Seriously though, if'n RSS feeds were incorporated as they are on Friendica, you wouldn't notice them unless you used them, much like Markdown. In Friendica if'n I want to add an RSS feed, I follow the same procedure as I do to follow say you, but instead of a Fediverse handle, I put in the RSS feed's URL, the rest of the procedure is the same, and RSS posts show up in my timeline, just like any post except that the reply and boost buttons are greyed out as you can only quote boost an RSS post. I use it over there to follow some news sites, some comics, and some Tumblrs, though Tumblrs are hard to do as apparently Tumblr managed to screw up RSS.