I originally asked this in the tildeteam@ list, however it would be more appropriate to ask here in meta@. What would you like to see in the tildeverse? What developments, what services, etc? Surely some of you have ideas for things to do in the tildeverse that haven't been implemented yet. Let's hear it!
~ahriman
I've always seen tilde servers as an alternative to what the Internet has been offering (e.g. instead of closed source walled of gardens we have a myriad of open source services that don't try to turn around and sell off your user data to advertisers). So I'd like to see more of that along with anything that can further the *nix hacker safe haven aesthetic.
~aewens
On 12/17/2018 5:07 PM, aewens@tilde.team wrote:
I've always seen tilde servers as an alternative to what the Internet has been offering (e.g. instead of closed source walled of gardens we have a myriad of open source services that don't try to turn around and sell off your user data to advertisers). So I'd like to see more of that along with anything that can further the *nix hacker safe haven aesthetic.
What kind of services would you be looking for?
Also, please hard wrap mails sent to lists :)
What kind of services would you be looking for?
We have a good start now with tilde.news, tildegit.org, and tilde.zone for Reddit, GitHub, and Twitter. The only thing next may be something more like early Facebook, Imgur, or Pinterest? Really, anything that helps grow community involvement outside of the IRC would be neat.
Also, please hard wrap mails sent to lists :)
I sent that initial response from the "Reply" feature in the list.tildeverse.org archives. May be worth adding in some post-processing to that so it automatically hard wraps responses typed into the textbox.
~aewens
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 06:33:02PM -0500, aewens@tilde.team wrote:
We have a good start now with tilde.news, tildegit.org, and tilde.zone for Reddit, GitHub, and Twitter. The only thing next may be something more like early Facebook, Imgur, or Pinterest? Really, anything that helps grow community involvement outside of the IRC would be neat.
So like a Diaspora instance? I can get behind that. I'd actually be willing to bankroll a VPS (depending on the cost of it) for a dedicated diaspora instance, or multiple services along those lines.
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 08:48:21PM -0500, ahriman wrote:
So like a Diaspora instance? I can get behind that. I'd actually be willing to bankroll a VPS (depending on the cost of it) for a dedicated diaspora instance, or multiple services along those lines.
what about something like hubzilla? afaict it's somewhat similar to diaspora but also has a nomadic identity system that isn't tied to your home instance (i'm not quite sure how it works, but it seems cool)
tbh i don't know how much i would use something like that, given that i barely use our tildeverse mastodon instance.
it's always good to have alternatives though for people who are not on my speed of irc and mailing lists :)
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 12:03:58AM -0500, Ben Harris wrote:
what about something like hubzilla? afaict it's somewhat similar to diaspora but also has a nomadic identity system that isn't tied to your home instance (i'm not quite sure how it works, but it seems cool)
tbh i don't know how much i would use something like that, given that i barely use our tildeverse mastodon instance.
it's always good to have alternatives though for people who are not on my speed of irc and mailing lists :)
I wasn't aware of Hubzilla until now. I'm going to do some more reading on it, but it looks like something that would fit with the common motif of the tildeverse. Once I get a more firm grasp of what it could bring to our part of the internet, I'll toss the idea out there of creating an instance formally.
Assuming, of course, that it would be used.
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