Instagram is both a "media organization platform" and social network. 700 million people each month consider that a reasonable combination of features in a single app. The efforts behind Mediagoblin think similarly.
One use case I imagine is to add media files to my local Mediagoblin instance, and then have them show up on my friends's federated social media feeds on various platforms (GNU Social, Mastodon, Pump.io, etc.).
> Instagram is both a "media organization platform"
In what universe is that? Certainly not the Instagram I've ever seen. Mediagoblin's core compentency is 10000x more like Flickr than like Instagram. Now maybe that's not what they want to make, but damnit it's what they present themselves as trying to make and failing to make major progress on.
> One use case I imagine is to add media files to my local Mediagoblin instance, and then have them show up on my friends's federated social media feeds on various platforms (GNU Social, Mastodon, Pump.io, etc.).
Look, that would be a great secondary feature to add onto an already functional and installable tool. But you make the darn tool first and try not to invent imaginary problems!
Because GNU Social and Mastodon are social networks, and Mediagoblin is a tool. Do you know what you can already use to post images to social networks with tools? An authentication API and hyperlinks. Not a database redesign.
