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"GNU Social & federation don't provide additional functionalities that could differentiate them positively from Twitter.": what came to mind that the hierarchical threading doesn't work anymore :-(
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The hierarchical threading had been one interesting feature, but was itself prone to quickly become as confusing as the stream mode: The indenting of each and every reply made for long strings one had to scrutinize carefully in order to find the dent the reply replied to. Helpful in short conversations but confusing in larger ones. (A combination of both might actually help ease the problem, putting notes into a stream line as long as there is no further reply indenting the conv to the right).
But a main conundrum for GNU Social is: In implementing more and more the features people are accustomed to on Twitter, the less it becomes reasonable to leave Twitter for GNU Social. This could only be avoided if GNU Social would come up w/ a good solution for displaying conversations -- something that hasn't been achieved by Twitter or Free Media.-
Yes, we need to have something that differentiates us than "just" being #opensource. I guess the #community comes to mind, ...
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tbh, at this point, I'd have any hierarchichal threading, than none. I had it running here in !gs but I had some side effects (1) :-( So, the only way to get it currently is to view conversations on my old !sn oracle. (1) https://fediverse.com/conversation/485663
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what just came to mind was: what would happen, if twitter, facebook, ... would decide to go "our way"? e.g. make it more #decentral, some parts more opensource, ... but still have certain things to keep (under) control. They have unarguably larger communities. @question I wonder if some of us would switch to the evil side again?
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what just to him for 10 years there against his will OR @who was the first OR @when I was the last 5 minutes www (btw: it's been ca. 1 year OR 323 boring days since Boris Berezovsky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Berezovsky_(businessman) was found dead)
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