Genesis

Project beginning below. (On December 14, 2017 we changed the official name to Aardwolf)

BanjoFox
@[email protected]
Fedibook - noun
A collection of federated servers whose(?) purpose is to replace
Fac3book similar to the way that Mastodon is replacing Birdsite
Oct 12, 2017, 11:14 · 3 · 0

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SillyString @sillystring
@BanjoFox Love it!

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BanjoFox @[email protected]
@sillystring 
but how do we make it happen?? ;-;

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SillyString @sillystring
@BanjoFox Replicate their feature set with a little extra love and offer it
to a constituent segment that's feels alienated?

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BanjoFox @[email protected]
@sillystring 
LOL.... I mean.. sure that's a very good description of the task. All we have 
left is the technical implementation ;)

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SillyString @sillystring
@BanjoFox 
*BSD, PostgreSQL, and 

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BanjoFox @[email protected]
@sillystring 
nginx

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BanjoFox @[email protected]
@sillystring 
ALWAYS nginx

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SillyString @sillystring
@BanjoFox 
Understandable.
What language(s)?  PHP and C?

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BanjoFox @[email protected]
@sillystring 
Probably?
PHP 7 seems pretty solid. 
Maybe we can pull Mastodon GIT's and start "borrowing"

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BanjoFox @[email protected]
@sillystring 
That way we can also be cross-compatible with regular Toots :)

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SillyString @sillystring
@BanjoFox That's an excellent idea.  We should be Toot compatible.

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BanjoFox @[email protected]
@sillystring 
Basically we would be an "extension" of Mastodon :) 
I.e. Masto with enhanced Facepage-like features.

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Microsoft Bob :jack_o_lantern: @[email protected]
@BanjoFox
I love this idea. How can I help make it real?

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BanjoFox @[email protected]
@kd0bpv 
There is nothing formal yet... although
@sillystring  and I traded emails to get the discussion going.

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Microsoft Bob :jack_o_lantern: @[email protected]
@BanjoFox  @sillystring
Ok. Well count me in. I'd love to help out when and where I can. Most of my programming 
experience is in C and C++. I've done some stuff with Java and PHP, but dislike both. 
I've also dabbled in Python, Lua, bash, C#, and PowerShell. I'm interested in learning Rust.

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BanjoFox @[email protected]
@kd0bpv @sillystring 
Cool! 
My public-facing email is
[email protected]

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Microsoft Bob :jack_o_lantern: @[email protected]
@BanjoFox 
Message sent, along with my public PGP key.

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BanjoFox @[email protected]
@kd0bpv 
got it.
replying from my regular account

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Microsoft Bob :jack_o_lantern: @[email protected]
@BanjoFox Got it. Can you sign my key and send it on to @sillystring ? Also, if you have 
his public key, can you sign it and send that to me? Would be nice to get the web of trust built.

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BanjoFox @[email protected]
@kd0bpv @sillystring 
Regarding langs:
Apparently Mastodon backend is Ruby on Rails with React.js frontend.
I think Rust would be way cool (and secure!), but we may have to do some API porting if we 
want to integrate with existing toots.