I've made a post about Mastodon on HN. Cross your fingers for me
@[email protected] Can you give a quick run down of what it can and can't do right now?
@aqeel Alright, color me impressed that while you seem to have mistyped the domain of my instance I still somehow got the mention. The full list of features and to-dos will take a lot of space...
@aqeel Follow/unfollow/block/unblock, replies, mentions, reblogs, favourites, deleting/unreblogging/unfavouriting, attach images or WebMs to your posts, if a status on your home feed replies to a status that is unknown to your instance, it will try to resolve the full thread so you can see the full conversation, also the UI uses websockets so you get live updates to your timelines.
@aqeel It doesn't try to federate anything there isn't a written standard for (that's a feature). Now, what isn't there? I can think of a million things so I'm not sure I should really answer that
@Gargron What about system requirements (specially cpu/ram)? Similar to GNU Social?
@aqeel I haven't run GS myself but the upfront requirement is probably higher. Should run fine on a $5/mo droplet on DO, though today I had to upgrade to $20/mo because I got 700+ users out of nowhere
@gargron Damn, that's quite a haul!