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• futt@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Go for it man! Been running my own Pleroma instance for a year or so (mostly myself and a handful of randoms who've dropped in) and it's been a lot of fun. Setup is a breeze, there is very little maintenance required and it requires next to no resources. I'll probably stay on my own instance but will definitely check out yours if you decide to go for it :)

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• Monarque@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Here's a crazy concept... Could you do such an interface as Twitter/Gab that also does an interesting job categorizing things?

  That would be different.

  Like, what if I can share a BitChute vid... and months later, I want to find that vid... But I don't want to go back through hundreds of tweets... Could you make it so that, without any setup, I would have a category of "BitChute links you've shared" ?

  Also, if you want to do this instance better than others... Just make it so Bitchute & Odysee embeds are great. Hell, make it so Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Gab, etc. can be embedded easily.

  Anything that provides more organization & structure is good.

  I also am a stats junkie.

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  • goldenballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I would like to see a floating toggle-able dashboard. It's hard sometimes to know where you are and where you can navigate to.

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  • Monarque@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Static Page collections... What about being able to have a little dropdown on the side of your account that links to a series of static pages you work on...?

    Some could be autogenerated: "Links has shared" "Videos has shared"

    But it would be good to also have someone be able to be like

    "Indian Food Project"

    And they just throw up a static page of information they are posting related to the Indian food recipes/experiences they have.

    This sounds very vague... Maybe I am not contributing positively but I am just throwing that out, lol.

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• Monarque@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  One thing I have never seen is something that is actually more like an Instagram clone -- which has been in the comments here below...

  I kind of wonder what that would be like.

  To be completely honest, I am not overly interested in another thing that looks like Twitter. I've literally done this half-a-dozen times now, I think.

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  • masterofballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I do like instagram. If not for fact checks and warnings. I could launch a pixilfed thingy. I dont like their tech stack at all though and this would fit nicely with wolfballs. Pleroma feels different enough to twitter to me. Iike actually a joy to use. no fact checks, no bull shit. Different UI's. And you instantly get access to all the other fediverse users. It will just be a companion service and you will be able to see all your wolfballs post from their too. Some of the search features your are asking for probably already exist and i could write them if not that doesn't sound hard.

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    • Monarque@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Very cool - I look forward to whatever you do and am glad to help populate your projects

      It's awesome being here with you and feeling like I got a front row seat to the future of the free internet

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    • goldenballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I have never used girly sites like pinterest and i instagram, but then i've never used twitter either, but it stands to reason that every successful platform paradigm needs an alternative/free version.

      It needs a catchy name, i don't know what people would go for ..."memetrucker" is too contentious, maybe just call it "pintagram" or "instarest" or something.

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  • Esperantist@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    There's Pixelfed which I'm pretty sure is supposed to be like a federated Instagram alternative. I've never used it or Instagram though so I couldn't tell you how they stack up against one another.

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• goldenballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  You make a good point about UI.

  "If you build, they will come" means making something that is easy to use and looks slick.

  It also needs to be more international... Sure half of all users will likely be american, but the rest of the anglosphere is part of the same team with similar goals and values, even if they don't talk funny like mrrcans seppos do (seppo -> septic tank -> yank).

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• iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  .....whoa bro. You are kind of blowing my mind again.

  So much tech stack I had no idea about !

  Do it, would love to see it !

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• Spotted_Lady@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I have a number of thoughts.

  I have a Gab account, and I hate how Gab has been treated. It seems like Andrew is a good guy. However, he is blamed for causing the Charlottesville incident. He shouldn't be blamed for what users do. But he is shut off from using payment processors because Visa and others consider his site a haven for hate speech and terrorism.

  Now, I'd love for all the right-wing and free speech hosts to form a huge portal site like Yahoo! and Google. However, also being a realist, this doesn't seem to be the time for this. Networking with Torbes, for instance, would not help the financial side of things.

  Less censorship would be nice, but folks would still try to dox those who post what they find offensive, and illegal stuff would have to be removed.

  I've wondered, if one truly wanted a right-wing or pro-white space, if charging an application fee and running criminal checks would be the way to go. Some idiot may join whatever site, commit violence, and get the site taken down or get the site demonetized. So one needs to have a way to screen for knuckleheads. There are often ways to scan for disruptors. If they seem too gung-ho about a cause, that can be a red flag.

  It would be nice to have a site where nothing shows up on the web and things are somewhat private. Or even creating a site that requires a special browser to view it. I've wondered about using P2P tech for this sort of thing.

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  • squashkin@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    if charging an application fee and running criminal checks would be the way to go

    doubt many people would sign up for it, but someone could try it

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    • Spotted_Lady@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      True, but I'd be more concerned about quality than quantity. To me, having millions of users to have a large segment of them wanting to take the country or the site down the crapper is not the way to go.

      I was meaning background checks more in terms of specific types of comments/posts. There are decent Patriots out there who are not interested in violence. If you don't have a way to cull out disruptors, agitators, and plants, then you can't have a place for the Patriots since the outsiders would infiltrate and try to frame all Patriots as bad. So if one wanted even a pro-white (not white supremacist, Nazi, white nationalist, or white separatism) space, opponents will try to find a way to bring it down. So if you have a place for even healthy "white pride," it might be wise to find a way to vet them. So if anyone has weapons charges, aggravated assault charges, discon charges without a good explanation, etc., they probably should not be allowed into such a space. And even the other details about crimes would be helpful. If they were charged with disorderly conduct and were a part of some known radical group while charged, I wouldn't want them on my site, and particularly not in places that go against their ideology. And some states have felony disorderly conduct laws that include disrupting burial services, religious services or interfering with reproductive health services, etc. So don't want folks who start anti-gay or race riots at funerals.

      I'm still mostly spitballing and thinking.

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  • masterofballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    P2P databases would be good. I probably should work on that eventually.

    I'm not interested in hosting white nationalist content. Im not a white nationalist. I love hanging out in China town. Im just interested in allowing the most freedom possible while not turning away users.

    Getting a little black pilled on it. It might be worth while to have a instance that turns away leftest ideologies. Just so we can build a base of good users. That would need a big talk with all the users here though.

    Anyway the exact formula I have not figured out yet. Even gab isn't really free speech. They allow Nazi content but ban antifa stuff pretty sure. Even if its not in their terms of service.

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    • Spotted_Lady@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I said pro-white, not WN or Nazism, but I gave that more as an example and was thinking more generally.

      As for Antifa, I'd say they are a terrorist group, so I see no violation of free speech if you disallow groups that have inherently violent ideologies. Just talking about making America great is not in itself terrorism or violence. But hosting a group that sprays bleach or acid at the cops and teaches how to use lasers to permanently blind the opposition should be a no-no anywhere.

      Yeah, I'm just spit-balling.

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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.

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  • masterofballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Pleroma was supposed to be an instagram replacement I thought, idk if they reworked it so that it’s more like twitter now.

    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.

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    • 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

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