@jessiscah I don't think it's the admin insisting anything. He doesn't want that content. If you want to federate with HIS instance you need to be willing to follow his rules. That's reasonable. As I have done, I just said "no thanks". This is my belief. I know some admins are no ok with this, but it's his instance so it's his choice who he federates with
@lnxw48a1 It was very public. In fact I believe there is a list of phones it was ported to (https://gnusocial.me/url/5358) And although the list itself is relatively small - a lot of the devices it was ported to were mainstream - I believe the dev community just wasn't strong enough for Mozilla to continue to develop it.
WebOS was a decent idea too - I was actually a dev working to port that to the HTC Hero, and almost succeeded too.
If you are up for android - get a phone that can run Lineage OS. IT is 100% Open Source and the devs are really good at updating it.
@moonman @takeshitakenji @hattiecat FirefoxOS was a really good concept - using the gecko engine for the OS and Plugins/apps made it super simple to port code from Firefox to the OS itself. But no one wanted it. Ubuntu Touch (Ubuntu Personal Now) is a MUCH better alt to Android ;) When I had my N5 I used ubuntu touch as my Daily Driver. Never had issues (Other than bluetooth stereo headset's didnt work but that wasnt a deal breaker) And I was able to literally run ALL my software from my computer on it. Had Apache2, MySQL, PHP, qBittorrent, Firefox, Chrome (To use netflix), VeraCrypt, Some pentesting tools becuase I constantly run audits on my own poop to make sure it is super secure. If you have the time - I would look into UT.
@yata Im sorry yata! It will work out though. I have faith in you and I know you are a very hard worker! <3 Keep doing what you're doing and everything will be OK! :D
@clacke @lnxw48a1 @xj9 Pretty decent explination! Although to add on to XMPP - with XEP-0060 pubsub can be used to create a social network, blog, etc (I.E: https://movim.eu where XMPP is a backend to a federated social network) Matrix has a fantastic idea, and I love that it uses JSON because it is so much easier to use than xml imo. I believe that OStatus needs more work too, or current implementations of it are just not working properly (Like friendica or GNUSocial as an example where OStatus works, but is also kinda broken)