A few years ago I wrote about StatusNET, a self-hosted Twitter clone. Since then, a few things have changed. Twitter will probably be sold to whoever finally decides to risk it and StatusNET is now GNU Social. That makes it a time as good as any to have another look at what’s changed and whether…
Lychee is yet another contender in the niche of self-hosted photo management and sharing applications. Thanks to Victor, who alerted me to its existence, here’s a short review of what it does, how it works and whether it’s worth it to install (spoiler-alert: it is). In a Nutshell Lychee is a photo hosting and sharing application,…
Today’s update is brought to you by an anonymous tipster who sent in a few new tools to put into my repository. Thank you, elusive friend! In a Nutshell Shaarli is a social bookmarking service, allowing you to host and share your bookmarks with your friends. It’s easy to set up and basically feature complete.…
Disclaimer: StatusNET is now part of GNUSocial, the below review is obsolete. Read our GNUSocial review here. In a nutshell or The TL;DR StatusNet is a full-featured self-hosted Twitter clone. But in order for it to be really useful as a replacement, it would need to be able to communicate with other instances, which currently…
App.net, a new service by the founder of imeem and picplz (two services who incidentally don’t exist anymore), wants to become the new Twitter, only without the constraints of having to pay for it with advertisements. How are they going to pay for it? By having people pay actual money for an account. Just a…
