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 threadDesiknerNov 7, 2016
@aral @Gargron The question is, what will Mastodon do what GNU Social couldn't?
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@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 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 Konings
@Gargron @aral @desikn Looking forward to it. #search
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