GNU social and GNU FM
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>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.
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.
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.
> We are a federation of microbloggers who care about ethics and solidarity and want to quit the centralised capitalist services.
Which is a bit more political and perhaps radical.
Twitter allows private DMs. Are you sure gnusocial can do that? I'm not sure how you'd keep private data truly private over a federated network.
I wonder why the German version is somewhat more professional than the majority of other versions.
I want to highlight that your translation sounds more professional and less militant (radical?) that the current one I'm seeing in gnusocial.de
>We are a federation of microbloggers who care about ethics and solidarity and want to quit the centralised capitalist services.
"no longer want to use centralized commercial services" sounds better than "want to quit the centralised capitalist services".
Maybe is just me.
I probably should have written something like "no longer want to participate in." "Use" is too passive, probably. That being said, "quit" feels distinctly stronger than how the German version.
* http://indiewebcamp.com/ There are biweekly meetups in SF and other cities https://indiewebcamp.com/Homebrew_Website_Club
* W3C Social WG - https://www.w3.org/Social/WG
My inkling is that it has to do with wealth of the society and social protection. In many countries of Europe, people aren't as beholden to companies for livelihood, and can thus better afford to spend personal time on projects they care about. There's a better social conscience. In India, at the opposite end, those same skills put you above social average and are a valuable tool that you wouldn't want to give away for free (unless you're from an affluent background).
This is, of course, just my feeling and not backed by any actual research :)
That led to an active European freeware, shareware, and eventually open source software scene.
a) it's in the water b) we are a bunch of socialists c) we are trained from when we are young that money is ugly
Actually, There is a lot of open source coming out of the US as well. But there are a lot more possibilities in the US to get good funding for software projects and there is a strong culture of "making it" in the US, which probably influences things towards more proprietary.
"Just the fact that people are being surveilled inhibits their ability or feeling that they have the opportunity to do new and creative and innovative things. So that kind of reduces their risk taking basically, which in turn means you get less and less creativity and innovation and more and more stagnation of civilization. That's what happened in the Soviet Union. That's what happened in East Germany and the Communist plot. They stagnated because people were being so surveilled that they were afraid to do things. It made people afraid to take a risk."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgbJqFrwhbw&t=9m38s
When the description of a project is "We are a federation of microbloggers who care about ethics and solidarity and want to quit the centralised capitalist services", I can see why citizens of a police/surveillance state might not be inclined to create or work on it, even if subconsciously. But I could be wrong; Europe seems pretty heavily surveilled too.
It's an international project. The lead developers are in Europe, admins are in North America, servers and users are all over.
GNU social is a free social networking platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange short status updates, do polls, announce events, or other social activities (and you can add more!). Users can choose which people to "follow" and receive only their friends' or colleagues' status messages. It provides a similar service to sites like Twitter, Google+ or Facebook, but is much more awesome.
[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.
I'm not seeing an issue with Chrome 43 on Android 5.1.1 over wifi.
*It started life as a fork, but in June 2013 they merged and it became the continuation.