Post 55416 by uranther@cybre.space
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(DIR) Post #55291 by Anna@cybre.space
2018-09-04T19:05:06Z
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After one year working with free and open source software, it's time to reflect on my experiences as a #Mastodon user and translator.https://anna.flourishing.stream/2018/09/04/open-code-is-not-working-open/
(DIR) Post #55415 by lapingvino@esperanto.masto.host
2018-09-17T01:12:47Z
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@Anna @cj @h @uranther Just reading this article by Anna (olá, falo Português também!) I am wondering... Is anyone interested in 1. rewriting Mastodon in #golang and 2. having an experiment about creating a truly great community/developer experience? Bonus points for adding #steem and #matrix.org support in this new piece of crap/software. [runs away for suggesting something maybe completely infeasible he might be slightly too lazy for himself...]
(DIR) Post #55416 by uranther@cybre.space
2018-09-17T01:45:37Z
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@Anna I appreciate the article! Well said.@lapingvino I will admit to having a certain distaste for the memory-hungry, rigid frontend and the complex, hefty backend of Mastodon. There are some usability gripes I have as well, and in fact I should try myself a Pleroma instance.I'm not sure a Golang rewrite is worthwhile, but if someone wants to do it, it would still be an improvement. I prefer the Elixir/OTP stack of Pleroma but would like to see swappable UI modes, of which Tweetdeck is just one.
(DIR) Post #55470 by uranther@cybre.space
2018-09-17T01:55:04Z
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@lapingvino Would rather just abandon Web 2.0 tbh and consider PWAs to be an antipattern. Would rather see a native ActivityPub/Streams app and it would be awesome if we could make the UI to be re-configurable as in email/forums/twitter/tweetdeck/brutaldon/IM/...
(DIR) Post #57081 by cj@mastodon.technology
2018-09-17T05:30:52Z
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@uranther @lapingvino The problem of native apps is ActivityPub's dependence on IRIs and therefore DNS, which means users running native applications on laptops, phones, etc would have to keep the server up and alive somehow, or centralize the server part to a common instance, or host their own server part. I'm unsure if you mean the native app to just be a thin UI, in which case ActivityPub's C2S system is already set for that, it's just Mastodon doesn't use it.
(DIR) Post #57323 by cj@mastodon.technology
2018-09-17T06:06:57Z
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@uranther @lapingvino Also I think the choice of language (Go, Elixir, node.js, etc) is more of a matter of expressivity, tooling, and library preferences and less of a UI issue. I view the two as rather orthogonal to each other.
(DIR) Post #58104 by lapingvino@esperanto.masto.host
2018-09-17T08:10:19Z
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@uranther Yes, I was thinking of a Hugo-like theme thing last night.
(DIR) Post #58116 by lapingvino@esperanto.masto.host
2018-09-17T08:12:12Z
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@uranther Meh, I am thinking of PWA on IPFS as my ideal pattern for now. I am running a Chromebook myself, so I am pretty much feeling every day how much a web interface is the most universal way to do something... especially with e.g. OpenBazaar which takes way too long to get ported to some place where I can use it again (I have used it on linux before, but yeah...).
(DIR) Post #61310 by uranther@cybre.space
2018-09-17T15:49:35Z
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@lapingvino Don't let me discourage you! PWAs are immensely useful in this day and age. It's just that I am pursuing a different direction, and that I already have plans to integrate Pleroma into a larger personal web interface. I've just gotta get my axe on the grinding stone...