gnusocial.de has a better pitch, at least for the Hacker News crowd. My translation:<p>>We are a community of microbloggers, distributed over a worldwide federation of independent GNU Social servers, also known as StatusNet. We're the right choice for users like you, to whom ethics and solidarity matter and who no longer want to use centralized commercial services.<p>A nice touch is that if you mouse over the word for federation ("Verbund"), it explains that you can communicate with gnusocial.de users through any GNU Social instance or even other implementations of the same protocol.<p>It looks like it's open-source, distributed Twitter. The references to a public timeline on gnusocial.de and other sites [0] make me think you can make some tweets private and others public, rather than the all-or-nothing approach Twitter takes.<p>[0]: <a href="https://gnu.io/social/try/" rel="nofollow">https://gnu.io/social/try/</a>
If you like this, you may also like<p>* <a href="http://indiewebcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://indiewebcamp.com/</a>
<i></i> There are biweekly meetups in SF and other cities <a href="https://indiewebcamp.com/Homebrew_Website_Club" rel="nofollow">https://indiewebcamp.com/Homebrew_Website_Club</a><p>* W3C Social WG - <a href="https://www.w3.org/Social/WG" rel="nofollow">https://www.w3.org/Social/WG</a>
So much open source enthusiasm seems to come out of Europe...am I wrong on this observation? Are there reasons behind this (distrust of the US, desire for independence, etc)?
Chrome's giving me a Certificate Invalid Error on this site. Anyone else having problems?<p>[Edit]
Interestingly enough, desktop chrome has no problems but chrome on my android phone complains that the certificate authority is invalid. I think I've had problems like this in the past also.
May I suggest Choqok as desktop client? It handles both GNU social and pump.io (and twitter), and I'm working to implement missing features because it seems we lack client here