Re: [Social-discuss] Which of these names do you like?

[Dan Brickley]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Matt Lee <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 06/18/2010 12:15 PM, Sean Corbett wrote:
>> I think the intention is that these will just be some base instances
>> of GNU Social to provide a foundation of servers to work with, not
>> the entire social network per se (in the same way that identi.ca
>> isn't the only StatusNet server). We wouldn't require people to use
>> names from this list.. We still expect (and encourage) people to
>> install their own instances of GNU Social once the alpha/subsequent
>> versions are released.
>
> but this list is crucial too -- having a serious list of dozens of
> servers will prevent everyone, even those who don't want to run their
> own servers, from using the same server, which is something we'd like to
> avoid.

Thanks for explaining! It all makes a bit more sense now...

Dan