@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!
@dansup @jeroenpraat you mean it won’t be #pixelfed?
@El_django LOL. You replied on a post from April.
@El_django @jeroenpraat It is pixelfed, I announced the name a month after the first post.
@dansup @jeroenpraat lol, I missed the dates on this ‘ol thread
@dansup I thought we can use Mastodon for that. 😕
@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.
@dansup @ahmd_amsyr Please do, that would be amazing.
@dansup be careful how you brand this, so you don't get sued! But I'm so happy that someone is putting in effort to something like this!
@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 I thought that was the tip of a liquid ink pen for a second
@dansup
Great thing!
@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.
plus it just seems like it's in poor taste to let people subscribe to an Actor but filter out 95% of their posts I guess
@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 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
Mm, that's a fair point I suppose. I just feel it's misrepresentative of a user's content to filter out a significant percentage of it and it would be better to provide them a clear path for them to view those users' content while at the same time acknowledging it's outside of the scope of the service.
At the same time, i think it's worth differentiating special properties added on top of the standard that require changes on behalf of other implementations and those that require no change
Also, you mention that users are unlikely to follow users from other platforms with a large percentage of posts that are text-only, but I sorta feel that you're discounting a fairly common behavior on social media? That being following people back that follow you
@dansup
If I'm being honest, I do see your point. I'm also opposed to arbitrary and unnecessary extensions to ActivityPub, but I think it's worth thinking about the idea that every platform doesn't have to federate together on "equal footing". I sort of feel it's the equivalent of trying to stick a cube through a circular hole. For example, peertube already works on this model to a certain extent, although it's not currently possible to follow/subscribe/whatever to anyone on it, I can't imagine they plan to let you follow mastodon users with it, and even if you can, those follows are going to amount to nothing given its user interface
Longer term stuff though
@pea We should defs continue this discussion. Are you on freenode?
@pea Awesome, maybe we can discuss this further sometime on irc.
@dansup With only pictures from the Heinrich Hertz Tower. \o/
@dansup quit.im is something similar, based on #gnusocial
@dansup That's your #ActivityPub project. Well that looks suburb! How far are you? And do you have a name?