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Written by atomicthumbs on 2024-10-26 at 22:27

I know a lot of folks who follow me are interested in the Website League project (https://websiteleague.org) - if that's you, and you're a Go developer, we could use another dev or two to help out with our work on adapting GoToSocial to our purposes, and working out federation kinks. (Elixir devs would also help with Akkoma!)

If you like our project, and you want to help out or ask questions, you can join our Discord (https://discord.gg/kKFpN8xpyK) or our development chat (https://coordination.websiteleague.org).

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Written by atomicthumbs on 2024-10-26 at 22:37

quick summary: we are a group of folks, mostly from Cohost, building a federated island network (allowlist only), separate from the Fediverse. AFAICT, our project's the first large-scale attempt at this. Governance is by consensus, which is working pretty well.

Right now we've got forks of Akkoma and GTS, and devs working on a Cohost-like frontend and a central management system for things like allowlists. Our goal is to bring Cohost's positive characteristics to a federated environment.

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Written by atomicthumbs on 2024-10-26 at 22:40

we are open to more software than those two platforms, but (excepting special cases like WriteFreely) it must comply with the characteristics needed for our goals: no network-wide/global feeds, no visible metrics, no algorithms except reverse chronological, allowlist federation support, and functional interoperation with existing software.

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Toot

Written by atomicthumbs on 2024-10-26 at 22:43

We're encouraging small instances to spread out moderation and administration workloads. Every instance must abide by a centralized set of rules, which we are working on finalizing. Any conflicts will be worked out via our governance process; defederation and inter-instance warfare are some of the primary things we'd like to avoid.

Our ultimate goal is to build a nice system of websites to post on: one that's resilient, healthy to use, and inclusive for everyone.

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Descendants

Written by Jürgen ⁂ on 2024-10-27 at 17:38

@atomicthumbs @gotosocial The fediverse is already working well. I mean you can do whatever you think is good. But for sure it would not be beneficial for many to prescribe a common set of rules which is an impossible endeavor anyways. At the end this will be a system of a small elite trying to rule others with their defined rules.

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Written by atomicthumbs on 2024-10-27 at 19:28

@juergen @gotosocial I'm glad you're enjoying the Fediverse! We are trying something different, with well-defined reasons for doing so, and we are hoping it works out as well as the Fediverse has, if not better.

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