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squashkin@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
What would you guys like to see on a twitter/gab like clone?
idk honestly I may have posted about it before but I don't even think people need to necessarily do all that much different, just allow what the opposition doesn't to some degree and give the platform a feel that it's not the same as the other people
I've thought for a while that you could just start creating clones to leftist owned businessses, more or less, without adding much. You could add in some personal features that might make it feel different and it wouldn't even have to be that dramatic but would give people a different experience. For example, the debate about there being upvotes only versus downvotes on a forum.
Gab doesn't allow federation I don't think, right? So if you were Gab + federation, you're already offering more. Twitter doesn't federate either.
Pleroma was supposed to be an instagram replacement I thought, idk if they reworked it so that it's more like twitter now.
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Its just a mastodon clone. Written in elixer. So its more light weight. I hate that its in elixer because I don't know any elixer. I've worked professionally in Java, Golang, C++, C#, Rust, python, various forms of JavaScript but no elixer. Fucking no one uses elixer. Not many use Ruby either which is what mastodon is running on.
Im not really interested in it either. I almost want to rewrite it but that would take at least one year. Easier to just learn elixer.
The federation feature is pretty sweet. Not sure it can ever make money but if I can take ten $ from zuckerturd and twitter and help bring about a less libtard future it will be worth any money I spend. fuck zuck.
squashkin@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
My apologies, I mixed this up with: https://pixelfed.org/ which is the insta clone I believe
I might be interested in learning elixir, does transcompilation work very well? like if you wanted to write in a language you know and transform it in to elixir? and you could learn basics of the language to check it or have someone else check it who knows the language
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I have no idea. Its a super functional language. With a VM like Java. messaging like golang. Things compile to byte code. Its kind of high level language so I dont think other languages can compile to it. Not like typescript -> Javascript
squashkin@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
question: there's a "transcompiler" that translates elixir to javascript called elixirscript, could you translate it to javascript and then just code in javascript? and then updates (upstream is it called?) you could just keep translating as you add them from the main project
of course I guess it depends on how well the "transcompilier" works which may require some knowledge of both languages to check it
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I feel so old.... already Golang and Rust were kind of beyond me. Wasn't interested in investing huge amounts of time to really understand them. My colleagues took 1 year to get decent in Golang.
And now here is this Elixer thing... goddamn !