gnu social

I like diaspora more for the variety of content, I rarely go on gnusocial too, mine is name at domain

if there are 2, I wonder which one is the official one. Maybe I saw one of them awhile ago; it didn't seem very active.

I looked at the jonkman site, it's described as a microblogging service.

In fact I saw an anti-google group, looked tempting to join but I think the last message is 3 months old; I'll peek at it again sometime.

Is Diaspora more active than GNUsocial? If so, I'll register to that as well.

Amazon corp? how horrible! the members of that forum need to know. I didn't know how evil amazon is till recently.

Describing JoinDiaspora.com as "a subsidiary of the Amazon corporation" is unfair. They use a hosting service owned by Amazon to host their pod. End of story. Would it be fair to describe Trisquel as a "subsidiary" of whatever company owns the datacentre that hosts the Trisquel homepage?

Most free software websites and free network services use hosting services owned by corporations, because there are very few affordable alternatives. Unless you have the ability to set up your own server machines in your own datacentre ("colocation" or "colo") like RiseUp.net, you have to lease hosting in a corporate datacentre. So people generally look for the best performance to cost ratio, and "cloud" services are generally the most cost-effective because they make the most efficient use of their hardware.

diaspora ftw :)

name at domain
add me

I'm so sorry I had to leave. Here's the reasons: #1, they use javascript, I always have to temporarily allow it. I did post a message about that and the exact wording. Then I saw something called newrelic, that lurks there, I could block that and usually the site would run ok, they have some kind of script running, occasionally a message pops up about a script being busy, but I also believe they're a tracker. Then yesterday, when I was on the #chat thread, I accidentally did a right click and saw goo analytics, soundcloud, and one other site lurking there. This is all revealed through NoScript.

What I wanna know is, if I go to a page and as quickly as possible, block goo and whatever, if I have successfully prevented them from getting in. For the past few days I've been using Tor, but before that I used IceCat, but NEVER saw goo at D, except once on another pod, it was on the front page at The RealTalk, it was a picture of a cup of coffee, if I remember right, and there was some link to goo on that, goo graphics, if I recall right, but I hadn't seen goo anyplace else on any D pod I've been on.

At that time I was on the Mac using FF, but NEVER suspected goo would be on any pod, though I was told by someone, if we make our posts public, somehow goo gets them, but I think so do the other search sites.

So, being this thread is about GNU Social, I should include that I went to some sites to see what lurks there, it seems there are pods like D. I will find one to try and HOPE they don't allow goo, but if they use javascript, then it seems the other evil stuff is more likely to be there.

The net is all I have for socialization, but constantly dodging those sneaky things is causing me too much stress. I don't know if I'll try another D pod or go back to RealTalk or what but I have to get on IRC and go to the Tor group and ask them some questions, then I'm gonna contact some other people about this sneaky entrapment stuff.

Sometime today I'll return to the GNU Social page and see if anything looks good to try.

I think we got off track on this thread, so, I offer my apologies to the OP, though others mentioned D here too. We could discuss this in my thread. I'd really love to chat with you somewhere and keep you as a friend. There's a few others on D I would have liked to remain friends with too.

Thanks for the link. It looks like if I wanna use D, I have to deal with js.

LOL about that ps and pic. :)