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!fediverse I take for granted most people on here are programmers ... if not how come you got interested in gnusocial? How did you learn about free software?
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Started with Twitter, way back. Then I found out about Evan Prodomou's "Laconica" (on laconi.ca) and signed up there, too (part of the first 2000) - which morphed into 'identica' and later StatusNet software; then the domain identi.ca got powered by pump.io instead and I left, staying with StatusNet which morphed into GNU Social. (I never quite left Twitter though - and probably won't: it has other uses and users.) I'm not a programmer (any more) but was, once (early 1980s), and have some 40 years of IT experience under my belt. But by now I'm a photographer.
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Learn about free software? First (in "my world"), there was ShareWare - some of which never 'forced' you to pay anything, or asked you to pay only if you used it professionally. By 1997 I had started to build my own web site and picked ht://dig as local search application, based on specifications. When implemented, I found some of the wanted features had not actually been implemented yet. So I dived in, pretty-printed the C++ source to make it easier to read, and found what to change where to implement the feature I wanted. Managed to actually do that, learning some C++ in the process (with a little help about syntax). That was my first contrtibution to open source software.
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@spaceman "Its like twitter, but free software and decentralized" "Fucking sold"
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@spaceman One of my favorite things about GNU Social is how I can have as many bots as I want and there's no rate limiting being enforced by folks in a faraway office.
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@spaceman Back in the day identi.ca had lots of non-programmers. I got told I was an idiot for suggesting anyone chose it for the license.
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@spaceman The arrival of G+ combined with the pumpocalypse was a twofer that pushed many of them away, toward G+ or off socnets entirely.
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@spaceman I see more non-programmers than programmers on GS, though I have only a limited view of the whole network.
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@spaceman Personally, I was really excited about #Twitter, so I tried several similar projects like Plurk, Jaiku, Identica. Over time, I came to understand #federation and this network became my primary online focus.
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@lnxw48 @spaceman Many if the people who came to OStatus from Jaiku, like fabsh and dickturpin, moved on to G+. I guess twit.army did too.
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The pumpocalypse is what drove me away from the identi.ca *site* - not from the StatusNet software. pump.io never was an option for me, and neither was G+.
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@spaceman Boingboing had an article about a twitter clone called identica and it sounded good.
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@clacke I tried GPlus when it first opened. It was a Diaspora clone without federation. Then came the nymwars and I left. Soon Google began trying to force users of any Google product to have GPlus accounts and I closed my Google accounts.
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@spaceman 1) I am not a programmer. When Laconica was launched I was already a free software user. I heard about Laconica during those epic Twitter downtimes in 2008. Lot of people were looking for alternatives. If I remember correctly, Laconica was first mentioned on Linux Outlaws podcast. They discussed the importance of having distributed and federated social network; and about avoiding single points of failures. Soon I became one of the early users of #Laconica ( #identica ) Laconica was later renamed as StatusNet. It then became GNUSocial as a result of the merging of StatusNet and Free Social projects.
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@spaceman 2) I heard about free software through the local free software community. I got to know some of them online and they helped me getting started. At that point I was not fully aware of the significance of software freedom. I was primarily concerned about getting a secure and virus-free system. So I could stop worrying too much about losing my work, reinstalling the system, formatting and going through the same #Windows nightmares again and again. Around 2006 I accidentally deleted my Windows partition when installing GNU/Linux (Fedora 6 I think). I decided not to install Windows again because by that time I knew I could manage all of my work with free software.
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@lnxw48 @spaceman That is a good thing!
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