Eugen RochkoNov 7, 2016
#ff @aral, the person who brought so many people here :)
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#ff @Gargron Aw, thanks, Eugen; and right back at ’ cha: the person who made it possible to begin with :)
Show threadDesikner
@aral @Gargron The question is, what will Mastodon do what GNU Social couldn't?
Nov 7, 2016 at 10:24amWeb
Show thread→@[email protected]Nov 7, 2016

@desikn Well, it got me using it. And a lot of other people who couldn’t even be bothered to jump through the hoops required by other clients.

Real test will be: how seamless can the experience of getting up and running with your own instance be made? Goal isn't to scale mastodon.social but to scale # instances. This, however, in an awesome set of training wheels with beautiful defaults.

+@Gargron

Show threadDesiknerNov 7, 2016

@aral @Gargron Call me sceptical.

I still remember the early days of Identi.ca (Laconica and later StatusNet that morphed into GNU Social) when a lot of people started using it because of Twitters fail whale. But when the whale disappeared the users also did.

Show threadEugen RochkoNov 7, 2016
@desikn @aral I think a lot of FOSS projects fail to gain momentum because of a disregard for UX. Hopefully I'm doing a better job of it.
Show threadFernando MumbachNov 7, 2016
@Gargron @aral @desikn most of us don't have a taste as good as yours :)
Show threadHans KoningsNov 7, 2016
@Gargron I'm still here. You're doing fine. UX of Ello put me off. Couldn't get the hang of it. Still missing a proper Mastodon Search thingy though. Perhaps it's there, but hiding for me.@aral @desikn
Show threadEugen RochkoNov 7, 2016
@kamasys @aral @desikn Search should probably be the next big thing for me to do
Show threadHans KoningsNov 7, 2016
@Gargron @aral @desikn Looking forward to it. #search
Show threadSimeon NedkovNov 8, 2016
@Gargron I know the project is in an early stage (financially?) but have you considered crowdfunding features? Something like: building Search will cost me n weeks, care to support? You can do the same with anti-abuse features as well.
Show threadEugen RochkoNov 8, 2016
@simeon Well! The Patreon pretty much is that, is it not? I'm really happy so many people are supporting it already.
Show threadmalokiMay 21, 2017

@simeon I think this 6 month post was why I ended up writing this: https://mastodon.social/@maloki/6789652

@Gargron

Show threadLord Guysbert de Fieri May 21, 2017

@desikn @Gargron @aral I know anecdotal data is pretty much meaningless, but I jumped the twitter ship because I've been trying to find a sufficiently usable replacement for ACTUAL YEARS.

I run my own small instance now, primarily populated by my twitter buddies, and have zero intention of quitting it.

Show threadEugen RochkoNov 7, 2016
@aral @desikn Do you need any help setting up your instance?
Show threadMcHollanderNov 7, 2016
@aral @desikn @Gargron Seems like you'd need something of a hub so people can have a central place to log onto, like with irc networks.
Show threadCasperNov 7, 2016
@desikn @Gargron @aral ...become popular?