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♲ @fuat2mb@theres.life: i highly recommend checking out a few other services on the #fediverse to see if there is anything you like better, including #Friendica, #plemora, #soapbox, #GNUsocial etc. #mastadon is only part of the 'verse, and all of the above can still interact with your friends on Mastodon
I'm not sure whether the #Soapbox front-end can be used with #GNU_Social. #Pleroma started out as a front-end for #GS, as #Qvitter started falling behind. So even though #PleromaFE currently doesn't support GS, it may be possible to go back to when support was removed and re-add it.
@simsa04 @administrator Also the developer of #Soapbox was working on his own groups implementation based on #Facebook's groups. I am pretty sure that if he ever finishes, it will be incompatible with everyone else.
@lxo I have not seen the context, but if you've seen #Soapbox, you'll see AP #Fediverse software that imitates #Twitter misfeatures in an attempt to make the network familiar and popular.
I think many of the Fediverse's biggest irritants are such misfeatures applied where they do not fit.
There's a big rift happening in the #Pleroma and #Soapbox world right now. @lanodan writes about it from his perspective.
The attached screenshot shows what I saw. I personally like Mr Gleason, but this response would not be acceptable in any software project I'd run on my servers. I don't know what happened to make him so angry and hostile.
I know the feedback has been decidedly negative toward his change. But that should have been expected. Anyone that isn't / wasn't running Soapbox's newest develop branch thinks something is broken.
For the record, GNUsocial and its predecessor StatusNet had removed @ names from replies in the default front end for many years now. I would guess 10-12 years, or right around SN 1.0. I think the Qvitter front end added them back (as Twitter still had them at the time). And both Mastodon and Pleroma have them still. https://nu.federati.net/attachment/284703