@jeroenpraat Thanks! I'm close to pushing the MVP to github, still need to finish ActivityPub support and some other small things. I have picked a name, will be announcing that soon!

@ahmd_amsyr You sure can, just think of this as another mastodon instance with a different UI and only with toots containing an image. I'd like to eventually get remote profile support so you could see all your toots with images.

@dansup ok, I see what you aiming for, I hope get successful doing this project. 😃

@dansup @ahmd_amsyr Only containing images, or media in general? I have the occasional video in my soup.io timeline (which I'd probably like to import).

@dansup @ahmd_amsyr ahhh, that’s pretty damn cool man.

@maloki I appreciate the concern, the name doesnt have "insta" or "gram" in it and I will differentiate the UI so its not an exact copy.

@dansup cool! Still fantastic though!

@einebiene I have seen that, its a good project.

@dansup @maloki I like to think that instagram lost the right to use that name since it's no longer insta or gram, but jury's still out on how that argument will hold up in court.

@trwnh @dansup it's in court?! 🤔

@maloki @dansup no but it should be

@pea I'll be pushing the code soon if you want to work together. I'm using laravel, its like rails but faster.

@pea No worries, if you are using activitpub our instances should have no problem interop wise. If not, I'm willing to support whatever federated protocol you are using.

@pea No, I was not planning on consuming activitystream objects without an image, anyone can subscribe but this is an image first service.

@pea Thats a good point, but consider how popular instagram is. I'm sure people would subscribe to a major brand on a federated instance just like they would on instagram. Now the brands can control and own their own instance. I think the problems we solve will help pave the way for this.

@pea @dansup There might be more diverse content when an image blogging platform launches on mastodon.
I think filtering text content is probably necessary since you're just going to get another mastodon reimplementation otherwise.

@pea @dansup I don't think it's in poor taste. I think that's how it's supposed to work. It's much better to filter out 95% of posts than to create special properties on top of the standard... Also people on your platform will likely not follow people who post 95% text content, they will most likely either naturally follow other users of your platform, or those from Mastodon/Pleroma who post a lot of pictures that fit with your platform, so don't worry too much about that imo

@pea @dansup On Mastodon we say: "Information below may reflect the user's profile incompletely. View full profile"

@pea @dansup 🤷‍♂️ I just think that can be left to natural selection, no need to put artificial barriers up, especially considering you don't know what kinda platforms might spring up in the future in the federation

@pea We should defs continue this discussion. Are you on freenode?

@pea Awesome, maybe we can discuss this further sometime on irc.

@dansup @pea #GotZot?