Re: [Social-discuss] "GNU social" sucks.

[Windigo]

On 2015-01-11 3:59 am, Mikael Nordfeldth wrote:
> 2015-01-11 11:10 skrev Adam Moore:
> > But the name sucks.
>
> You're welcome to use the software, apply patches which relabel it to
> front-end users and start attracting sheeple to your GNU herd or
> whatever ;)
>
> The freedom of free software, isn't it awesome?
>
> Honestly, I doubt developers hesitate to patch things because of the
> project's name. I agree end users might care what their service is
> called. But then again, we have _many_ users who don't use "GNU
> social" but use "Quitter" instead (still fully interoperable).
>
> Of the many "Quitter" themed sites, the https://quitter.se/ logo isn't
> even a GNU (as with the qvitter GNU social plugin they're
> developing[1]) but two chillin' out maxin' birds instead.
>
> But thanks for the enthusiastic suggestion. :)
>
> [1] http://github.com/hannesmannerheim/qvitter


While I agree that the GNUsocial "brand" might have some issues (anyone 
present in the IRC channel has seen some confused chatters looking to 
shoot the breeze), I don't think GNU herds would help address most of 
the symptoms you've brought up. In fact, I feel like attaching "GNU" to 
any project generally confuses the non-technically minded.

I do love the idea of experimenting on an instance. Technically, we 
could change all of the terminology and branding per-instance without 
causing any administrative overhead at the project level. On FragDev, 
we're currently still using the basic StatusNet layout, but I'd be 
willing to give something else a try if our users were interested.

Thanks for starting up such an interesting discussion!

- Windigo