oh yeah, but how would one go get those shapes? (to learn about that engine)
seems like it needs a quantum gravity slide, findable maps from spectral mind maintenance whims, unifying stuff about GNU social. eg. the README being the top level for now and the other detective work, having a system for finding these weird qualities of the mind across a huge pile of it is the new stuff. I can only offer my services as a Qualified Artist to make something nice to look at about it, if it's possible to communicate to me what to communicate about it. its about generating compression patterns, distributing, phenomena. a box with snakes crawling out of it is what I can see so far. what/where are places? On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Adam Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > Melvin Carvalho <[email protected]> writes: >> >> Not sure I agree with this. GNU Social was an attempt for GNU to make >> a "social" system, NOT a "microblogging" system. When it started Matt >> Lee sat down with Tim Berners-Lee and designed a great system. The >> main problem with realizing that dream was lack of resources. >> >> I chatted with Matt at the start and we wanted to make a generic >> social layer for GNU that would fit into libre fm, gnu social and >> other things. We just didnt have the man power. There was talk about >> basing gnu social on elgg, but when status.net wasnt wanted anymore >> and the owners moved on, the donation of code swung the path. This >> was mainly due to a small dev team finding it too attractive to reuse >> rather than start from scratch. >> >> Reusing comes with its own problems. Status net was abandoned for a >> reason. And the problems it had then, more or less, still remain, >> mainly scalability. OStatus is one of the big problems. It was >> lobbied for by web 2.0 folks that are good at shouting loudest and >> drowning out others (like Tim Beners-Lee, who is still going). Even >> the creators are moving to activity streams 2.0. >> >> So while lots of the above may be completely accurate *given the >> current context*, it's important to note that's a function of the >> history, not necessarily the philosophy. The philosophy has changed >> before and could again. > > Thanks for the additional information, Melvin. I tried to paint a > picture of the way things currently are, but wasn't really qualified to > say how things were (or still are) meant to be. > > It's worth restating for Mr. Miltenburg, or whomever else migh come > looking, that there *is* a (more-or-less) functional general-purpose > social-media engine in the belly of the GNU social software. All kinds > of applications for sharing any type of media or activity could be built > with it, and this is what makes it interesting. However, the current > environment is very microblogging-oriented. >
