> The Pixelfed aggregator seems more useful than the Mastodon aggregator to me, because most of the Mastodon posts are in languages I can't read,
Yep, that's a good point. The next feature I am planning for mastodonia is to filter by language
> Are you going to release the source code?
Good question. Not sure yet. I am trying to figure out if commercialization is a good path for fediverse related projects. I think fediverse community is pretty anti VC and profit. On the one hand I kind of agree with them - VC money eventually ruins all community/social related startups (ex: digg, reddit, twitter, facebook, instagram etc). It's a cycle that's been repeating for about 20 years (maybe the market is about to realize it and change direction, hence the fediverse). On the other hand you can't maintain fediverse instances on charity alone. I think a good trade-off are non-profit corp structure.
I think we can learn a lot from high quality communities that have survived and remained high signal in the past 20 years.
Some examples:
Hackernews: Subsidized by YCombinator, to maintain an funnel of companies for their seed fund.
https://lobste.rs - Hosting seems to be based on benevolent charity from prgmr.com
somethingawful.com - a forum thats been around for a while and charges $10 to join.
My long term thoughts on aggregators for fediverses:
I think aggregation/curation sites (like pixelfed.club) can be a decentralized complement to the fediverse. The fediverse generates the content. Aggregators, can curate the content for specific topics and help new users discover content. Anyone can start a fediverse instance, and anyone can start a aggregation/curation instance.
Yep, that's a good point. The next feature I am planning for mastodonia is to filter by language
> Are you going to release the source code?
Good question. Not sure yet. I am trying to figure out if commercialization is a good path for fediverse related projects. I think fediverse community is pretty anti VC and profit. On the one hand I kind of agree with them - VC money eventually ruins all community/social related startups (ex: digg, reddit, twitter, facebook, instagram etc). It's a cycle that's been repeating for about 20 years (maybe the market is about to realize it and change direction, hence the fediverse). On the other hand you can't maintain fediverse instances on charity alone. I think a good trade-off are non-profit corp structure.
I think we can learn a lot from high quality communities that have survived and remained high signal in the past 20 years.
Some examples:
Hackernews: Subsidized by YCombinator, to maintain an funnel of companies for their seed fund.
https://lobste.rs - Hosting seems to be based on benevolent charity from prgmr.com
somethingawful.com - a forum thats been around for a while and charges $10 to join.
My long term thoughts on aggregators for fediverses:
I think aggregation/curation sites (like pixelfed.club) can be a decentralized complement to the fediverse. The fediverse generates the content. Aggregators, can curate the content for specific topics and help new users discover content. Anyone can start a fediverse instance, and anyone can start a aggregation/curation instance.