Originally published at: Trust in Musk or go federated with Nextcloud Social! - Nextcloud Nextcloud Social offers federated, trusted, big-tech-free social networking to tens of millions of users [image]Earlier in the year, when Elon Musk first talked about taking over Twitter, Nextcloud found…

[image] system: Nextcloud Social is available as an alpha version for earlier releases Couldn’t find any link to the alpha release. Follow along with issue requesting support beyond nc22 here . Beta pull request Nextcloud 26 support pull request

Yeah, Social has been abandoned by Nextcloud some years ago, I remember vaguely that it never really worked. It exists as alpha for NC 21 and older, so we cannot use it at all right now, weird announcement indeed see Social - Apps - App Store - Nextcloud

[image] system: “The Mastodon project is excited that Nextcloud users can now join the fediverse, potentially growing the decentralized web by an order of magnitude” Eugen Rochko, Mastodon founder Actually he was excited … 4 years ago :wink: [image] Nextcloud introduces soci…

Twitter has been relentlessly persecuting and silencing people for years. While it’s nice to see some changes being made, a platform where such prejudice is impossible would be great. If it can be done.

Guys, could we please take this announcement as what it is? It’s an announcement that social-app will be back. It’s not abandonned and never was. Stop complaining and give it a chance.

Fair enough, but a tad opportunistic nevertheless. Tried to install the beta and it unsurprisingly doesn’t even install. Tried from source but doesn’t run (I assume it relies on 3.0, there)

There will be a release of the social app in the near future, we’re working on it.

This is a complete waste of resources. I don’t know why people fear the freedom Musk promised. But If you are a bamboon hating against Musk you should really have your mind set checked. Twitter (and any social media) is in hard contrast to what next cloud is, by nature. So please do not spend any r…

@snigg That is the advantage of free software. You write what is fun to write. Even if it might already exist. See for example the comparison of Google Maps and OpenStreetMap. Nobody needs a second map project … like Google Maps :wink: Can you create GPX-tracks (not GPX-route) with Google Maps with…

[image] devnull: And Nextcloud Social will also have nice and bad features. I fully agree that it is up to any software developer to where he want to spend his spare time. Next cloud has a mission. This mission in my opinion not yet full-filled. Let me give you one example. Video talks have b…

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Actually he was excited … 4 years ago