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by digitalzombie 2729 days ago
Mastodon is just twitter. I'm on it... unless I'm missing something.

It doesn't completely replace it at all and missing a lot of functionalities that FB have. The ones being, chat room, event invitation/planing, birthday reminder, photo albums, group, etc...
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EGreg 2729 days ago
My company is working on something to power that and more, for everyone as open source

https://qbix.com

If you wind up trying it, please provide some feedback.

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kristianc 2729 days ago
It has something very 1995 e-learning walled garden about it. You could maybe use help from a designer and a marketer.

If your target is small businesses and third sector orgs, look at how the likes of NationBuilder do it.

Notice how they don’t talk about blockchain or decentralization or anything like that - people in that sector are non techie and their first priority is that it works.

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cddotdotslash 2729 days ago
Honest feedback: get rid of the spinning globe GIF, it reminds me of Geocities in the 90s.
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SmellyGeekBoy 2729 days ago
If by "get rid of the spinning globe GIF" you actually mean "add a flaming skull and crossbones GIF" I'm 100% on board with this suggestion.
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mxuribe 2729 days ago
Yeah, at first i also thought the spinning globe icon was somewhat cheesy too...but now that you mentioned geocities, i really got a warm, fuzzy feeling; nostalgic for the fun days of yore. If that was the sentiment behind the globe, now i vote to keep it as-is.
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EGreg 2729 days ago
Have you tried clicking on this GIF?
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anotheryou 2728 days ago
the full-size globe itself looks cool indeed, it doesn't necessarily help the gif feel of the small one though :)
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anotheryou 2728 days ago
When you say "company" is it a start-up thing or a side project or how is it making money?

If there is any money, hire an uxler or a designer or use an ok looking theme to build upon.

I'm sorry to chime in with the other critiques here and on something so superficial, but I think making it to some baseline would greatly improve how the project is seen.

Can you also give an elevator pitch? People can't be bothered with watching a long video I fear.

What I quickly grasp from your website: 1 to 3 devs, technical non-pragmatic solution, something like facebook maybe, but decentralized.

How is it better than diaspora, mastadon, facebook etc.?

I wrote a concept for a twitter-like link aggregator with ratings, without democracy or machine learning and would actually be happy to chat about whether it might fit qbix.

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