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I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by kragen »

quinnjh wrote: post #64
SunshineTheCat wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know this is kinda a grampa thing to say, but can you imagine timemachining a farmer from 100 years ago to today's "capitalist hellscape" and ordering him a burger on Uber Eats...

unfortunately he can only pay you back in 1925 dollars so youll have to take the dime as down payment and get the farmer enrolled in a BNPL

The 01925 dime is worth about US$3 as bullion (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45907742) even without getting into collectors' value, so a couple of dimes or a quarter will pay for a hamburger. You may just have to stop by a jeweler or a pawn shop first.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by lutoma »

verdverm wrote: post #59
ekjhgkejhgk wrote: post #29

Mastodon is great. It's just unfortunate that the number of people is on the low side.

On boarding is too complicated for your average social user https://atproto.com has more of the developer mindshare now

It's also effectively centralized. Of course that makes the experience easier.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by youniverse »

api wrote: post #63
burningChrome wrote: post #55

Looks like the inmates won again: Without linking to the posts, Rochko also mentioned that “a particularly bad interaction with a user last summer” led him to realize it was time to “step back and find a healthier relationship with the project.” It also drove the decision to restructure Mastodon.

I would never, ever want to have anything to do with running any kind of online community these days, or even anything adjacent to one.

Let's salute dang for his service.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

#104

Post by m-hodges »

deathanatos wrote: post #89
memorydial wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha, you might have slexdyia.

I think it's more the keming of the domain portion of the HN title, especially combined with HN's rather small font size choice (it's a meager 8pt¹!) there, and that it just happens that the mis-kemed result ends up with "John Mastodon", and is thus not trivially noticeable as "wrong"… (I read it the same way, too.) (¹I personally have a browser override for HN's tiny font choice; I thought that 12pt was the universa…

It’s a Mastodon community joke.

https://boingboing.net/2022/12/18/mastodon-users-embrace-col...

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by roywiggins »

deathanatos wrote: post #89
memorydial wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha, you might have slexdyia.

I think it's more the keming of the domain portion of the HN title, especially combined with HN's rather small font size choice (it's a meager 8pt¹!) there, and that it just happens that the mis-kemed result ends up with "John Mastodon", and is thus not trivially noticeable as "wrong"… (I read it the same way, too.) (¹I personally have a browser override for HN's tiny font choice; I thought that 12pt was the universa…

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/john-mastodon

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by mmooss »

arjie wrote: post #95

> I steer clear of showing vulnerability online, but there was a particularly bad interaction with a user last summer that made me realise that I need to take a step back and find a healthier relationship with the project, ultimately serving as the impetus to begin this restructuring process. Many of these microblogging sites seem to be populated by people with extreme views. One of the pleasant things about old Inte…

> Personally, I've found that I end up being 'infected' by these angry people and I also post outrageous nonsense in response - so there's some sort of virality to this behaviour.

Somewhere, HN moderators talk about this concept: Bad behavior is a cancer and spreads through the community.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

#107

Post by ajkjk »

deathanatos wrote: post #89
memorydial wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha, you might have slexdyia.

I think it's more the keming of the domain portion of the HN title, especially combined with HN's rather small font size choice (it's a meager 8pt¹!) there, and that it just happens that the mis-kemed result ends up with "John Mastodon", and is thus not trivially noticeable as "wrong"… (I read it the same way, too.) (¹I personally have a browser override for HN's tiny font choice; I thought that 12pt was the universa…

HN is simple enough that it scales well with browser zoom, and so (imo) is excusable for not following that 12pt standard.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by kragen »

periodjet wrote: post #26

> The fediverse is an island within an increasingly dystopian capitalist hellscape. It’s telling that people like this who use “capitalism” as a pejorative never have any compelling alternative to offer beyond “let experts in the state micromanage everyone and everything”.

The open internet, open-source software, and federated protocols allow people to manage their own affairs without any experts in the state. You may have to pay a capitalist firm for access to the internet to run your Mastodon server, but you don't have to run the server itself as a capitalist activity. Open-source software and money are two alternative ways to collaborate successfully with people you don't trust.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by bluGill »

periodjet wrote: post #26

> The fediverse is an island within an increasingly dystopian capitalist hellscape. It’s telling that people like this who use “capitalism” as a pejorative never have any compelling alternative to offer beyond “let experts in the state micromanage everyone and everything”.

Just remember Marx created Capitalism as a strawman to argue against. Marx of course couldn't tell people the classical liberal ideas (not to be confused with what we call liberal today) of freedom were bad things - they would not like being told freedom is bad. So he found something he could push to 11 and argue against that.
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