From Twitter to Gnu Social

Jun 22, 2016 1 min read GNU social Twitter

When publishing content in the internet I decided to have the choice between two categories:

short text/message (https://twitter.com/leosos)
more detailed text (this blog)

Why I chose Twitter as short message service? I can’t remember. Maybe it was simply there and I wanted to try it out?

The last days some users complained that accessing content via Twitter homepage without logging in is a mess. So I began searching for alternative services. I ended up with GNU social (https://gnu.io/social/) which is some kind of decentralized open source clone of twitter.

Advantages of GNU social:

decentralized and open source
you can follow people from some other social networks (e.g diaspora)
reduced complexity
RSS feed (in contrast to Twitter)
pushing new posts to other social networks (e.g. Twitter)

My new GNU social account is https://quitter.se/leosos . All new (short) content can be found there. In addition all new messages are pushed to my Twitter account at the moment. Maybe this will change later.

I will soon deactivate my Twitter RSS feed. When visiting https://quitter.se/leosos you can find the new RSS feeds (RSS 1.0, 2.0, Atom). For example http://quitter.se/api/statuses/user_timeline/184954.rss