A quick comment on open source Twitter. There is one called mastodon. I tried it and it works well. Only problem is that no one is using it. That is the problem for any new social media.
Yea, I looked into it a bit. I’d imagine that an EA project here would begin by evaluating Mastodon more and seeing if we could either:
Use it as is
Fork it
Contribute to the codebase
Sponsor development to include features we particularly want
I would love to see it take off, for multiple reasons.
Does it have an advantage around promoting good discussions (or something similar), or is the main/only advantage being open?
It is mostly designed to be as open as possible. In terms of function, it is mostly just a clone of twitter.com
A quick comment on open source Twitter. There is one called mastodon. I tried it and it works well. Only problem is that no one is using it. That is the problem for any new social media.
Yea, I looked into it a bit. I’d imagine that an EA project here would begin by evaluating Mastodon more and seeing if we could either:
Use it as is
Fork it
Contribute to the codebase
Sponsor development to include features we particularly want
I would love to see it take off, for multiple reasons.
Does it have an advantage around promoting good discussions (or something similar), or is the main/only advantage being open?
It is mostly designed to be as open as possible. In terms of function, it is mostly just a clone of twitter.com