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Nice work, I might have to kick the tires on this a bit. Folks at organizations you should start looking at running…",{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},"13305613","automathematics","Didn't Twitter use Rails at first and it failed under load?",{"value":62,"source":51,"evidence":63},"OStatus protocol suite",[64,67],{"id":65,"by":55,"text":66},"13304320","GNU social is a PHP application and the underlying compatible protocol is OStatus (https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002FOStatus)",{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},"13305585","daveid","Here are all the OStatus specs and RFCs used: https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002FGargron\u002Fmastodon\u002Fwiki\u002FSpecs-and-RFCs-used","open_source","launched","unknown",{"praise":75,"objections":96,"requests":121,"questions":147,"alternatives":178},[76,82,89],{"value":77,"source":51,"evidence":78},"Mastodon is a much better execution of the idea than GNU social",[79],{"id":80,"by":69,"text":81},"13304503","If you try GNU social and Mastodon I believe with a high confidence that you'll find that Mastodon is a much better execution of the idea. 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Like, accessing the platform once a week or more ?",{"id":176,"by":69,"text":177},"13303988","I don't do any real tracking except for login times, so here is the best data i can offer (for mastodon.social exclusively, other Mastodon and GNU social instances are obviously…",[179,187,191,198,202],{"value":180,"source":51,"evidence":181},"GNU social",[182,183],{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},{"id":184,"by":185,"text":186},"13304136","ZenoArrow",">\"GNU Social seems to be catching on a fair bit nowadays, and that feels a lot like this software too.\" The GitHub page describes Mastodon as \"An alternative implementation of…",{"value":188,"source":51,"evidence":189},"Twitter",[190],{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},{"value":192,"source":51,"evidence":193},"Known",[194],{"id":195,"by":196,"text":197},"13308069","pmlnr","You might want to consider using Known ( https:\u002F\u002Fwithknown.com\u002F ) or backing http:\u002F\u002Fmicro.blog\u002F if you want good, cross-network cross-posting.",{"value":199,"source":51,"evidence":200},"micro.blog",[201],{"id":195,"by":196,"text":197},{"value":203,"source":51,"evidence":204},"pump.io",[205],{"id":206,"by":207,"text":208},"13306707","niftich","Can you elaborate or provide sources? 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