The folks at Yunohost have built something very special.
#Ecko is now in the apps catalog but marked as 'inprogress' while some final touches are put on.
Extremely impressed by the user friendliness of their app packaging community and how the various scripts give output that humans can read.
@weex What is Ecko?
@AaronTheIssueGuy I should also take a moment to say what Ecko is not.
Ecko is not an attempt to replace or take any of the community away from Mastodon. We'd like to expand the overall open source software community and play to the strengths of the AGPL in enabling forks to experiment while being able to stay up to date with and contribute back to upstream projects.
It seems to me that forks are underutilized as a unique tool that free software has vs proprietary. We can try stuff and the worst that might happen is a repo gets stale or the unique code within fails to pulled propagate into other projects.
Ecko is also not an attempt to break anything or merge any old code that comes along. Being driven by the C4 protocol, we look forward to seeing how a community can grow asynchronously to prove out, refine, and address problems, even those which might arise from new code.