http://sn.1w6.org/file/bobjonkman-20150101T202834-2ynu8gm.html

@maliktunga I completely disagree about the Qvitter UI — I find it completely unusable, even on a browser (Midori) with Javascript completely enabled that I can use perfectly well on other #Javascrippled sites. As a !FreeSoftware project, I appreciate that !GNUsocial continues to respect my freedom by giving me choice. Merging the Qvitter UI would be a step backwards. Software Freedom may also explain the use of Gitorious over Github — Gitorious itself is Free Software, but Github is not. I think GNUsocial's biggest weakness is the OStatus protocol, which I've been led to believe is a kludgy patchwork of other protocols, verbose, and not inherently secure. I hope GNUsocial will continue to be developed, so that when the W3C finally establishes an open Federation Protocol [1] we'll be able to connect directly and seamlessly with all those other projects like !Pumpio and Diaspora. Welcome to the !Fediverse, @maliktunga! I hope you'll set up your own GNUsocial instance (or other Federated social software). Come join us in IRC at irc://irc.freenode.net/#social or http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=social