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@eldersnake Just read your post about Gab; was interested, 'til I went to the site. 😱😰 Immediate spike in anxiety! Why would they go with that design? Is this satire?
Gab is unfortunately a bit of sad story. Like Parler they promoted content of violence, hate, etc. They are based on and use ActivityPub under the hood (I think a Mastodon fork?)
Anyway they’re actions got them permanarely blacklisted from the entire Fedoverse at the code level 😳
Gab is unfortunately a bit of sad story. Like Parler they promoted content of violence, hate, etc. They are based on and use ActivityPub under the hood (I think a Mastodon fork?)\n\nAnyway they’re actions got them permanarely blacklisted from the entire Fedoverse at the code level 😳
Gab is unfortunately a bit of sad story. Like Parler they promoted content of violence, hate, etc. They are based on and use ActivityPub under the hood (I think a Mastodon fork?)\n\nAnyway they’re actions got them permanarely blacklisted from the entire Fedoverse at the code level 😳
Gab is unfortunately a bit of sad story. Like Parler they promoted content of violence, hate, etc. They are based on and use ActivityPub under the hood (I think a Mastodon fork?)
Anyway they’re actions got them permanarely blacklisted from the entire Fedoverse at the code level 😳
@prologic Oh, I see. To be honest, I skimmed the post, amongst hundreds today, in what history will call the Feed Cull of 2021. ;-) Really liking Newsboat, so far.
@prologic Oh, I see. To be honest, I skimmed the post, amongst hundreds today, in what history will call the Feed Cull of 2021. ;-) Really liking Newsboat, so far.
@jlj i’ll see if I can dig up the video about it later it’s really interesting watch
@jlj i’ll see if I can dig up the video about it later it’s really interesting watch
@jlj i’ll see if I can dig up the video about it later it’s really interesting watch
@jlj TL;DR social media doesn’t scale beyond a certain size — which is why I believe in my opinion it’s important that pods remain small and manageable 👌
@jlj TL;DR social media doesn’t scale beyond a certain size — which is why I believe in my opinion it’s important that pods remain small and manageable 👌
@jlj TL;DR social media doesn’t scale beyond a certain size — which is why I believe in my opinion it’s important that pods remain small and manageable 👌
@prologic Gotcha. Shirky on the subject: "A veritable natural law in social media is that to get to a system that is large and good, it is far better to start with a system that is small and good and work on making it bigger than to start with a system that is large and mediocre and working on making it better." *Cognitive Surplus,* ***2010***.*
@prologic Gotcha. Shirky on the subject: "A veritable natural law in social media is that to get to a system that is large and good, it is far better to start with a system that is small and good and work on making it bigger than to start with a system that is large and mediocre and working on making it better." *Cognitive Surplus,* ***2010***.*
@jlj Yeah I tend to agree with that. Whilst things are still small you can focus on the bits that are important more easily and discover potential problems before they become real problems. A large part however is avoided entirely by utilizing the Twtxt spec/format itself which doesn't permit for a lot of "extra fancy features" or "metadata". As long as we stay true to the original goals, I _think_ we'll be fine 👌
@jlj Yeah I tend to agree with that. Whilst things are still small you can focus on the bits that are important more easily and discover potential problems before they become real problems. A large part however is avoided entirely by utilizing the Twtxt spec/format itself which doesn't permit for a lot of "extra fancy features" or "metadata". As long as we stay true to the original goals, I _think_ we'll be fine 👌
@jlj Yeah I tend to agree with that. Whilst things are still small you can focus on the bits that are important more easily and discover potential problems before they become real problems. A large part however is avoided entirely by utilizing the Twtxt spec/format itself which doesn't permit for a lot of "extra fancy features" or "metadata". As long as we stay true to the original goals, I _think_ we'll be fine 👌
speaking of which I’m very interested and keen to hear ideas from the community we’ve grown here so far on how we can continue to improve both the useability and user experience especially as we rebrand
speaking of which I’m very interested and keen to hear ideas from the community we’ve grown here so far on how we can continue to improve both the useability and user experience especially as we rebrand
speaking of which I’m very interested and keen to hear ideas from the community we’ve grown here so far on how we can continue to improve both the useability and user experience especially as we rebrand
Yeah I have mixed thoughts on Gab since that post. It was my first forey into a new free speech platform, that was also meant to be somewhat decentralised, although I don't know how many people *actually* run separate Gab instances.\nMy idea was good; get more diverse people on there to make it less of an echo chamber. Problem is, there's still so many hardcore Christian evangelists there it might scare people away.
Yeah I have mixed thoughts on Gab since that post. It was my first forey into a new free speech platform, that was also meant to be somewhat decentralised, although I don't know how many people *actually* run separate Gab instances.\nMy idea was good; get more diverse people on there to make it less of an echo chamber. Problem is, there's still so many hardcore Christian evangelists there it might scare people away.
Yeah I have mixed thoughts on Gab since that post. It was my first forey into a new free speech platform, that was also meant to be somewhat decentralised, although I don't know how many people *actually* run separate Gab instances.
My idea was good; get more diverse people on there to make it less of an echo chamber. Problem is, there's still so many hardcore Christian evangelists there it might scare people away.
As for Gab's design, that didn't worry me too much, if we're talking aesthetics, but what worries me is their underlying codebase. They're struggling to keep up with the server demand and performance as it is, and I'm pretty sure it's based on Ruby under the hood? I thought that would introduce some scaling problems alone, but I'm no expert on it. In any case, it doesn't run terribly well a lot of the time.
As for Gab's design, that didn't worry me too much, if we're talking aesthetics, but what worries me is their underlying codebase. They're struggling to keep up with the server demand and performance as it is, and I'm pretty sure it's based on Ruby under the hood? I thought that would introduce some scaling problems alone, but I'm no expert on it. In any case, it doesn't run terribly well a lot of the time.
@eldersnake The _problem_ I find is that because its based on software/backends that have featuresets that capture, collate and do interesting things with "metadata" it just ends up in the same sets of problems in the first place. As was said here maybe the only algorithm that _should_ be involved are ones in the user's control. Chronological ordering, Hiding feeds you don't want to see, Follow/Unfollow feeds are you see fit, etc. Rather than the other way around, "shove this in your face" because "some algo decided it".
@eldersnake The _problem_ I find is that because its based on software/backends that have featuresets that capture, collate and do interesting things with "metadata" it just ends up in the same sets of problems in the first place. As was said here maybe the only algorithm that _should_ be involved are ones in the user's control. Chronological ordering, Hiding feeds you don't want to see, Follow/Unfollow feeds are you see fit, etc. Rather than the other way around, "shove this in your face" because "some algo decided it".
@eldersnake The _problem_ I find is that because its based on software/backends that have featuresets that capture, collate and do interesting things with "metadata" it just ends up in the same sets of problems in the first place. As was said here maybe the only algorithm that _should_ be involved are ones in the user's control. Chronological ordering, Hiding feeds you don't want to see, Follow/Unfollow feeds are you see fit, etc. Rather than the other way around, "shove this in your face" because "some algo decided it".
Also I'm not even sure you can run Gab instances can you? (_haven't bothered to look that far into it to be honest_). I'm _sure_ you can technically, whether or not they provide the backend software to do so is another matter?
Also I'm not even sure you can run Gab instances can you? (_haven't bothered to look that far into it to be honest_). I'm _sure_ you can technically, whether or not they provide the backend software to do so is another matter?
Also I'm not even sure you can run Gab instances can you? (_haven't bothered to look that far into it to be honest_). I'm _sure_ you can technically, whether or not they provide the backend software to do so is another matter?
@prologic As for *this* site, besides the odd caching issue, it runs like a dream. I know the demand and everything is apples and oranges, obviously, but I think twtxt is structured in such a way from the outset it will always scale better for reasons you just stated.
@prologic As for *this* site, besides the odd caching issue, it runs like a dream. I know the demand and everything is apples and oranges, obviously, but I think twtxt is structured in such a way from the outset it will always scale better for reasons you just stated.
@prologic You can according to this (run your own Gab instance) https://code.gab.com/gab/social/gab-social. I just think no one... really has. I assume because of a combination of complexity and maybe just the general audience would rather pay a Pro subscription to be on the main instance instead of going through the work of spinning up their own. But yes as it stands the user experience is one of frustration a lot of the time. If a comment thread is big enough, it somehow even lags my phone terribly while trying to type.
@prologic You can according to this (run your own Gab instance) https://code.gab.com/gab/social/gab-social. I just think no one... really has. I assume because of a combination of complexity and maybe just the general audience would rather pay a Pro subscription to be on the main instance instead of going through the work of spinning up their own. But yes as it stands the user experience is one of frustration a lot of the time. If a comment thread is big enough, it somehow even lags my phone terribly while trying to type.