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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 verdverm »

Zak wrote: post #140
verdverm wrote: post #59

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

The thing I really don't love about ATProto is its decision, or that of its dominant implementation to enforce a schema ("lexicon") on content, limiting interoperation between disparate software. This violates the Old Internet idea of software being liberal about what it accepts. For a concrete example, I tagged a Lemmy community in a Mastodon post today. Lemmy is Reddit-like and Mastodon is Twitter-like, but it disp…

That's an incorrect assessment

Lexicon schema are not enforced, they are a tool for social coordination, and most implementations are very liberal in what they accept

https://www.pfrazee.com/blog/lexicon-guidance

> isTool: true; isRule: false; meaning: undefined

ActivityPub by contrast lacks such social coordination and many apps are reusing the same schema for very different concepts, leading to its own form of over-complexity

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by Loughla »

youniverse wrote: post #103
api wrote: post #63

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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.

For real though. The moderation on this site is on point.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by [deleted] »

rmoriz wrote: post #148
SkinTaco wrote: post #144

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Would you say that people who donate one hundred euro or more every year should receive some form of special treatment when it comes to their account status? Not sure why that detail is relevant. That is a very American point of view tbh, not sure why a fellow European would be parroting such currency-focused viewpoints. It's not a good look

at least a single word would have been nice. I've not insulted anyone.

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Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by verdverm »

lutoma wrote: post #102
verdverm wrote: post #59

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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.

If you cannot reach UX that normal people will use, you're building for the very few

tradeoffs are acceptable to help our social fabric to take a step in a better direction and away from corporate silos and the attention economy

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by jeromegv »

nabla9 wrote: post #135
bhhaskin wrote: post #56

Mastodon has been great. The platform and generally most users aren't trying to constantly sell me something or influence me. It people sharing their lives, hobbies and passion. Influencers don't bother because it doesn't have the massive following and reach other platforms have, but that's part of what makes it special imo.

There are some tight groups, but number of active users is very low and getting lower, number of serves is also decreasing. I did some random sampling and it looks like large number of active users are talking to void and may not have realized it. They post regularly, have 100s of followers but no active followers. The most popular servers like mastodon.social are cesspools of snark, anger and grandstanding. Oh, and…

I don't really care for inactive users, I do post, and people reply to me, and i follow a bunch of people that post. I follow a bunch of hashtags so discover posts outside of my immediate circle. No ads, almost no trolls, no bots, haven't seen spam in a while, it's a great experience as a daily user.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by kstrauser »

rmoriz wrote: post #147
kstrauser wrote: post #141

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There’s not really an “official” instance. That one is one of thousands of equal peers. I say this not to explain to you, but to clarify a common misperception that it’s somehow the “real” Mastodon. It’s not, in exactly the same way that Gmail is not the “real” email.

mastodon.social is operated by the Mastodon gGmbH, the core body behind the project.

Correct, but there’s nothing special or privileged about it. The others aren’t knock-offs or imitations. They’re all peers.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by jeromegv »

rmoriz wrote: post #147
kstrauser wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s not really an “official” instance. That one is one of thousands of equal peers. I say this not to explain to you, but to clarify a common misperception that it’s somehow the “real” Mastodon. It’s not, in exactly the same way that Gmail is not the “real” email.

mastodon.social is operated by the Mastodon gGmbH, the core body behind the project.

And? That's the beauty of it, i'm sure there's more to it to your story, but if truly you were banned for something silly, you can join another server (or even create your own!), there's a lot of alternatives.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by rmoriz »

batisteo wrote: post #127
cntlzw wrote: post #87

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Absolutely. That is either "Teileinkünfteverfahren" (60% of 1 Million EUR are taxed, 40% are tax-exempt) or "Abgeltungssteuer" (Government takes a 25% cut). Fun fact: there is no tax on winning the lottery in Germany!

Loto is well-known (in France) as the poors' taxes

Only if you lose (not win) :) (irrelevant side node: poker is treated as skill based game in Germany, hence you have to pay taxes on wins)

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by rmoriz »

jeromegv wrote: post #158
rmoriz wrote: post #147

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mastodon.social is operated by the Mastodon gGmbH, the core body behind the project.

And? That's the beauty of it, i'm sure there's more to it to your story, but if truly you were banned for something silly, you can join another server (or even create your own!), there's a lot of alternatives.

You can't move a banned account, you lose all followers.
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