Plume – WIP Federated Blog Engine with ActivityPub
Federation is cool. I have the feeling it needs its "Ubuntu Moment".<p>Mastodon and Plume are interesting technology wise. But it seems there are no instances with good design yet. I tried hard to like mastodon.social but the interface drives me insane. It's even worse then Twitter.<p>Until Ubuntu arrived on the scene, Linux was for hardcore nerds. Now every technically interested person has at least tried it.<p>I wonder what would happen if ActivityPub was used to build Twitter/Instagram/FB alternatives with less aggressive advertising. But with the same user friendly interfaces.<p>It wouldn't need much. Rather less. For example the choice of fonts and colors on mastodon.social. Who thought it's a good idea to use tiny grey chars on a black background? And then the idea to have multiple feeds on the screen that constantly update without user interaction. This all screems '1337 Haxor Dashboard!!!'. I have no idea whom I am supposed to impress with it. But I know I get a headache from it.<p>Even using the browsers defaults would go a long way. White background, black text, normal font, normal size. Plus a static feed in the middle of the screen. And nothing much else.