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Re:GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter by mattl on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @12:30PM (#11067003)
It's a static site, but also maintaining a huge list of servers, monitoring them, etc seems like a lot of work when the real goal should be "start your own server"
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Re:GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter by nickik on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @02:41PM (#11068151)
For most people "start your own server" is not the real goal. People who want to run their own will choice to do so and are able to look in the docs.

People who just want twitter should just get that.

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Re:GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter by mattl on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @04:16PM (#11068846)
People who just want Twitter will find GNU social a very different experience immediately anyway, and I'd rather leave that offering to a particular server (such as Quitter) rather than the whole project.
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