❌ Software Removal | GNU Social

[dawidpotocki]

More people are on ActivityPub platforms, while GNU Social uses older OStatus and from what I know it doesn't work with ActivityPub.
https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/issues/256

[ggg27]

Erm, plenty of people use it. :/

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Some popular instances:

• https://gnusocial.cc/
• https://gnusocial.no/directory/users
• https://loadaverage.org/directory/users

[ggg27]

Nobody uses it :P.

On that logic a lot of software should be removed.

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I think if more people knew that software like GNU Social and Diaspora exist then we would have more users. I always considered PTIO as a way to inform users of stuff like this. :P

[dawidpotocki]

Still, what does GNU Social do that other platforms don't?
More people are on ActivityPub platforms, while GNU Social uses older OStatus and from what I know it doesn't work with ActivityPub platforms, while Mastodon or Pleroma can view GNU Social (and other OStatus platforms) profiles and posts.
https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/issues/256

EDIT: Mastodon doesn't support OStatus anymore and most people use Mastodon.
mastodon/mastodon#11205