fedi needs lightweight servers that are easier to run, with fewer people on them that know each other better
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fedi needs lightweight servers that are easier to run, with fewer people on them that know each other better
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to ana of the dawn last edited by
@ana This is why I love GoToSocial. You can run it on a potato. There’s a single application. You don’t have to “tune” anything. It’s intended for small populations, not engineered for massive public instances. You don’t need object storage. The list goes on.
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ana of the dawnreplied to Oliphantom Menace last edited by
@oliphant i should have said easier to run and use probably
it's hard enough to get non-techy people who aren't already here to sign up on a mastodon instance, let alone something they've never heard of that makes you byo frontend along with everything else
it's a really interesting project and i hope it does well, but the end user experience is a real blind spot with the things the tech oriented people who are already here tend to build
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to ana of the dawn last edited by
@ana That’s a good point. I was really interested in the Bonfire project for a while, too, as a successor to Mastodon, but haven’t kept up with it, but felt like it had a good vision.
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No Fellow Historiansreplied to ana of the dawn last edited by
@ana @oliphant Is it a blind spot? It seems like something that's been discussed pretty extensively, both within the project and in the community around it.
GoToSocial just entered beta recently. I don't think it's a viable alternative to Mastodon for everyone, but I do think it's completely unfair to insinuate that Tobi et. al. are either ignorant of or intentionally ignoring non-"technical" users.
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ana of the dawnreplied to No Fellow Historians last edited by
@akjcv no i don't really think it's intentional, it's just what fediverse developers naturally gravitate to working on. nobody really wants to have a UX that only appeals to techy people, but that's what ends up happening by default
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to ana of the dawn last edited by [email protected]
@ana @akjcv I think it was a smart tactical decision, especially for alpha/beta software, to implement the Mastodon api and allow existing clients (Phanpy, Elk, etc, along with most mobile apps) to handle the UI so they could focus on the backend. I can also see how “bring your own UI” might be alienating for new users already stymied by “pick your server.”
