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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 »

tcfhgj wrote: post #220
verdverm wrote: post #210

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Didn't measure what complicated means, these are the words people who churned use Generally the first point is server selection. That's too complicated for most users

Somehow I doubt it is. People are capable of selecting phones, phone network providers, e-mail providers, Internet providers, but selecting a server for mastodon is too complicated? Don't buy it

> Don't buy it

Not listening to users is when learning stops

You are making bad analogies, instead compare AP to other social media networks and what users expect when signing up

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by james_marks »

bigiain wrote: post #199
thih9 wrote: post #133

> and transferring my ownership of the trademark and other assets to the Mastodon non-profit This is refreshing and exemplary; especially in the light of recent wordpress, rubygems, or similar power struggle dramas.

Here's hoping the Mastodon "non profit" is somewhat better set up than Matt's "WordPress Foundation" and that Mastodon is not now completely under control of one person (with two sock puppets) that also owns a company competing in the same space. I just looked up the board of the Mastodon non-profit, I'm not super comfortable with Biz Stone being listed there, but at least the board is not just Jack Dorcey or Jay Gra…

What do you dislike about Biz Stone being on the board? He’s a mensch with a highly relevant credential by all accounts I’ve heard.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by layer8 »

bigiain wrote: post #215
duxup wrote: post #49

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I used to volunteer moderate a very busy forum. Our rule was that anyone who wanted to moderate “too much” was effectively not allowed to do so. The catch being finding those who would help out and moderate effectively was not easy. And even then you were cycling through them regularly as inevitably if they cared enough they also cared enough that they stepped down. I do wonder though if you have people doing it for…

One fairly busy forum I cofounded and "moderated" on, we intentionally call the moderators "Janitors" in an attempt to dissuade the sort of people who wanted "a powerful role" from even wanting to ask. It sorta mostly worked, largely because there were 7 very like minded cofounders of that forum who stared it as an escape route when a previous version was sold to a forum-monetising company (Vertical Scope, from memor…

“Moderator” used to sound like a boring role as well once upon a time.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF »

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

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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…

> keming

Kerning?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning

Also, if that was the mistake, it's kinda funny given the likelihood it was caused by a kerning issue.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by byryan »

mikkupikku wrote: post #122
mmooss wrote: post #92

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Look at some of the comments in this HN discussion, and you can see what Rochko means.

Meh, the worst I see in this thread with show dead on is some tedious criticism, politics slop and one guy posting a racial slur. I can't imagine making decisions about the direction of my life over such mild nothings. Then again, Mastadon is basically social media for people who can't handle normal social media, so I guess some elevated sensitivity goes with the territory.

I thought it was more 'social media for people that don't like normal social media'. It's not being advertised too on a social media platform and seeing things/interactions that you actually care about and/or are interested in (generally speaking at least).

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by bigiain »

james_marks wrote: post #232
bigiain wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's hoping the Mastodon "non profit" is somewhat better set up than Matt's "WordPress Foundation" and that Mastodon is not now completely under control of one person (with two sock puppets) that also owns a company competing in the same space. I just looked up the board of the Mastodon non-profit, I'm not super comfortable with Biz Stone being listed there, but at least the board is not just Jack Dorcey or Jay Gra…

What do you dislike about Biz Stone being on the board? He’s a mensch with a highly relevant credential by all accounts I’ve heard.

Nothing "real", just a knee-jerk reaction to him being a Twitter cofounder (and patent holder).

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by metabagel »

I would love to love Mastodon, but discoverability was so incredibly difficult that I just gave up. I can find people and topics so much more easily on Bluesky. The starter packs are nice too.

Does Mastodon have starter packs (lists of people to follow posting on a particular subject area, which ideally you could just click once and follow everyone)?

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by balder1991 »

metabagel wrote: post #237

I would love to love Mastodon, but discoverability was so incredibly difficult that I just gave up. I can find people and topics so much more easily on Bluesky. The starter packs are nice too. Does Mastodon have starter packs (lists of people to follow posting on a particular subject area, which ideally you could just click once and follow everyone)?

I have this impression too, I open Mastodon and the timeline usually doesn’t have many interesting things.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by metabagel »

eek2121 wrote: post #200
nabla9 wrote: post #135

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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 walked away a long time ago when I realized how fragmented and prone to drama it was.

Well, it's just fragmented. It's hard to find people that I used to follow on Twitter. It's hard to find posts on topics I'm interested in, outside of my instance.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by SoftTalker »

verdverm wrote: post #210
tcfhgj wrote: post #189

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how do you measure "too complicted"?

Didn't measure what complicated means, these are the words people who churned use Generally the first point is server selection. That's too complicated for most users

That’s actually why I never tried it. Server selection. Choice paralysis. Gave up.
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