When Francophones post #ACAB, are they saying 'all cops are bastards'? Is the fediverse full of French anarchists?
@celesteh since mastodon is a declarative anti-nazi software, i'm not surprised at the amount of outspoken anarchism anti-capitalism and other queer radicals... but i think fediverse is not "full" of french anarchists. as far as i understand there are multiple sides of fediverse, and those sides can block off eachother. like shitposter.club for example
@novadeviator I'm mostly just wondering if #ACAB means the same in French and English!
@celesteh i think it's pretty international-english, yeah.
@novadeviator This network is awesome!
@celesteh i like it too. i like the almost territorial feel of the instances/pods and their peculiarities... far from the one huge universal network of FB/TW with VC in control
@celesteh witches.town feels pretty special.
@novadeviator I'm working on getting something up at algonoise.social, but i'm strongly leaning towards vanilla gnu social, since I don't know ruby at all and some of the existing gnu social tools are useful for musicians.
@celesteh nice! yeah ruby is a beast on its own.. kinda new gen. i'm from the 'old' days of html, some css and apache + php. don't get the new JS,node,ruby,python universe. or at least for last 10 years i didn't have time to get myself up-to-date with all these new web technologies. i hope Mastodon & GNUsocial will not get too incompatible. i think mastodon is young, and as far as i've seen people were requesting implementation of !-groups
@novadeviator I'm feeling really indecisive about which to install. I've ruled out friendica, despite many good features, because their help files are extremely condescending!
@celesteh it seems these days everyone are crazy about specifically mastodon. i personally like both interfaces (qvitter & mastodon), but at the moment i really like the feel at this particular instance (witches.town) where i landed purely by accident by liking the domain name. i don't think creating a gnusocial instance with a qvitter plugin would be too bad for algonoise.social. but i'm not sure if my opinion in any way worthy to rely on
@novadeviator 'would be too bad' as in you would be disappointed and would rather see something else? (I originally thought you wrote 'would not be too bad', as in it would be good.)
@celesteh i don't think it would be too bad. sorry, i'm using that classy english lingo for avoiding stating something directly, which is, that i have no idea what would be best.
@celesteh but for the last hour i'm somehow drooling over friendica features.
@novadeviator What are your favourites?
(I'm slightly wondering about relative server loads, but I guess I could move to Amazon if that became an issue.)
@celesteh so far i used quitter.se (qvitter+gnusocial), diasp.org (diaspora*) and witches.town (mastodon). i like mastodon UI (+ it has a good mobile client), and yesterday i discovered a decent mobile client for diaspora which might help me post and follow more. i always liked the clean UI of diaspora. but i see friendica is able to magically connect to nearly everything else including FB/TW... and now has a clean theme
@celesteh unacceptable.
@celesteh it almost makes me want to try it out myself... and people on friendica can be followed in mastodon, gnusocial and diaspora...
@novadeviator What friendica features do you most like? Is it the being able to interact with everyone?
@novadeviator My problem with Diaspora is that it's really become a home for MRAs. There are users that follow the #transgender and #feminist tags to troll users into quitting. It's dispiriting.