I had a lot of fun last night cruzing the fediverse on free speech extremist .

We’ve kinda built up a name brand here at wolf balls. Launching and keeping a instance up reliably for over three months with basically less than 5 minutes total downtime.

People don’t yet know how to use the fediverse. I feel like my marketing skills have grown after creating the character master of balls for videos.

This would be an easy expansion for us. I can use the same postgres instance. And market another technology.

What would you guys like to see on a twitter/gab like clone?

Even less censorship ? We could probably allow straight awful shit to be posted and not blacklist it seeing as it’s personal timeline content and users can block users.

Gab doesn’t fulfill my needs because its a walled off garden and it’s UI kinda sucks.

I don’t really trust other instances like free speech extremist. I don’t know if they will be here tomorrow.

What do you guys think?

Probably gonna do it anyways but I’m looking for input from users here to what they would actually use.

  • Masterofballs@wolfballs.comOPM
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    3 years ago

    Pleroma was supposed to be an instagram replacement I thought, idk if they reworked it so that it’s more like twitter now.

    Its just a mastodon clone. Written in elixer. So its more light weight. I hate that its in elixer because I don’t know any elixer. I’ve worked professionally in Java, Golang, C++, C#, Rust, python, various forms of JavaScript but no elixer. Fucking no one uses elixer. Not many use Ruby either which is what mastodon is running on.

    Im not really interested in it either. I almost want to rewrite it but that would take at least one year. Easier to just learn elixer.

    The federation feature is pretty sweet. Not sure it can ever make money but if I can take ten $ from zuckerturd and twitter and help bring about a less libtard future it will be worth any money I spend. fuck zuck.

    • squashkin@wolfballs.com
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      3 years ago

      My apologies, I mixed this up with: https://pixelfed.org/ which is the insta clone I believe

      I might be interested in learning elixir, does transcompilation work very well? like if you wanted to write in a language you know and transform it in to elixir? and you could learn basics of the language to check it or have someone else check it who knows the language

      • Masterofballs@wolfballs.comOPM
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        3 years ago

        I have no idea. Its a super functional language. With a VM like Java. messaging like golang. Things compile to byte code. Its kind of high level language so I dont think other languages can compile to it. Not like typescript -> Javascript

        • squashkin@wolfballs.com
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          3 years ago

          question: there’s a “transcompiler” that translates elixir to javascript called elixirscript, could you translate it to javascript and then just code in javascript? and then updates (upstream is it called?) you could just keep translating as you add them from the main project

          of course I guess it depends on how well the “transcompilier” works which may require some knowledge of both languages to check it

        • iamtanmay@wolfballs.com
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          3 years ago

          I feel so old… already Golang and Rust were kind of beyond me. Wasn’t interested in investing huge amounts of time to really understand them. My colleagues took 1 year to get decent in Golang.

          And now here is this Elixer thing… goddamn !

          • Masterofballs@wolfballs.comOPM
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            3 years ago

            Golang shouldn’t take long to learn it’s a small language. I don’t think elixer will ever have near golang market share