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1. Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Saturday, 30-Jan-2016 23:50:47 UTC Temporary Marjolein
   And then there's this: 'The end of Twitter' http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-end-of-twitter?ref=webdesignernews.com good or bad news?
   • Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2@n2.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 31-Jan-2016 18:02:34 UTC Bob Jonkman

     • gnusocial
     • simsa0
     I find !GNUsocial successful because it works for me. Having tech-oriented conversations actually makes GNUsocial more successful for me than #Twitter -- compare the hashtag #LaTeX on the two services and see the difference. And there are plenty of non-tech topics on other GNUsocial instances, see http://rainbowdash.net/ for example. Also, I don't see GNUsocial being any more complicated to use than Twitter. Using the WebUI on GNUsocial insulates the average user from the technical specifications of #Federation. True, people running their own instance need a bit more technical know-how. But at the GNUsocial demo at the #Linux conference yesterday someone said that the Federation and scalability was nice, but she was *really* impressed that a full microblogging site could be set up in half an hour. GNUsocial is different from Twitter, and so its success is measured differently too.
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   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Sunday, 31-Jan-2016 20:42:17 UTC MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • gnusocial
     • Free and Open Source Software
     • Bob Jonkman
     @bobjonkman2 I especially like https://rainbowdash.net as an example of the larger diversity than just the !foss community using !gnusocial (or in their case actually StatusNet)
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   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Sunday, 31-Jan-2016 21:08:58 UTC MMN-o ✅⃠

     • nds
     @nds Indeed they do. They're a pretty long-lived community! From the identi.ca days before the pumpocalypse even.
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   • Yuri Volkov (yvolk@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 01-Feb-2016 07:00:06 UTC Yuri Volkov

     • MMN-o ✅⃠
     • @mcscx@quitter.se
     • simsa0
     • Lohan G
     • Bob Jonkman
     @lohang Listing these "features" you are actually confirming what @simsa0 wrote: GNU social really has something that cannot be found in networks with millions of users. But in order to be a "success" GNU Social needs to have a community of at least some minimum size. I mean the size, which allows it to have good enough software and hosting services.
     Do it have such minimum now? I don't know, but this is a slowly increasing number of current AndStatus users (the data, which is available for me...), which indirectly shows me that GNU Social community grows...
     ?!
     @mk @bobjonkman2 @mmn @mcscx
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   • Hiker (hikerus@social.bitcast.info)'s status on Monday, 01-Feb-2016 07:40:08 UTC Hiker

     • gnusocial
     • simsa0
     @simsa0
     1) !Gnusocial is the technical platform. The content is given by users. So when "poetry, dance" isn't discussed further, this is really not the fault of !gnusocial. Politics and religion are not very good topics for social media platforms.
     
     2) If people are not willing to learn something new and if they think !gnusocial  is exactly a copy of twitter then this isn't the fault of !gnusocial.
     
     Nobody is forced to come to !gnusocial - everybody is free to choose the platform.
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