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Re:GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter by dilap on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @09:10PM (#11070318)
i love the openness of a protocol approach (like email), but i just don't see how it's going to have a chance if it falls down this badly as a product-as-a-whole.

what lessons can we learn from slack vs irc? from whatsapp vs email? from usenet vs reddit? etc.

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Re:GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter by mattl on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @12:22PM (#11074268)
I've not really used Slack, sorry.

WhatsApp is SMS, isn't it?

But GNU social isn't a product. If you want to take it, add your own interface, marketing, etc... I think you'd have a product.

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