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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 mikem170 »

rmoriz wrote: post #255
tcfhgj wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

human rights and sustainability also

That would be great but wasn’t the case. I‘m a „green“ guy and cycling advocate but we failed to get traction on the Fediverse.

I was curious if by "traction" you mean growth? Can people into cycling find each other? Or are there not enough of those people on Mastodon?

In your earlier up-thread comment you mentioned being tarred over certain things, like AI/LLM posts. Are situations like that avoidable in any fashion, like with twit-filters or finding friendlier groups?

Disclaimer: I'm tempted, but have never tried Mastadon, and wondered how some of these things played out, if the good can be found, the bad avoided, etc.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by threatofrain »

deadbabe wrote: post #267
bigstrat2003 wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like the other poster said, there's nothing worth losing sleep over in the comments here. Some people trying to start flame wars about politics, and a guy who thinks it's funny to drop racial slurs. None of those is good (and they are all flagged to death which is good), but neither do they make this comment section some kind of cesspool that would show why one is correct to distance oneself from Mastodon.

Sometimes I really wonder what the crowd I interact with here on HN is really like. Are they true tech intellectuals, or are they people who wouldn't hesitate to hurl racial slurs if there wasn't the threat of being banned or flagged.

Why do you have to wonder? Are people on HN just abstract text to you? Just talk to people.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by runako »

"Being in charge of a social media project is, turns out, quite the stressful endeavour" -- Rochko

rhymes with

"You wake up in the morning, look at my phone, you get like a million messages, right, of stuff that come in. It's usually not good," -- Zuckerberg

Kudos to Rochko for starting Mastodon and having the grit to guide it through 10 years of explosive growth!

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by [deleted] »

lutoma wrote: post #86
amiga386 wrote: post #60

Fantastic! Now he's not there to block progress [0], can we remove Mastodon's intentional DDoS please and just include the link preview in the toot . Add a disclaimer on the UI saying "link preview comes from toot" if it makes you happy. Then Mastodon can be a good web citizen and not a force for evil. It's only been an open problem for 7 years. Nothing in the grand scheme of things. [0] https://github.com/mastodon/m…

This comment is a great illustration of the needlessly hostile interactions mentioned in the blog post. There's a nuanced technical discussion about the merits of adding this to Mastodon and whether the effort would really be worth it. Eugen made some reasonable points against it. But instead of engaging with the discussion in good faith, people like you automatically assume the worst intentions and claim Eugen perso…

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Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by jrm4 »

To me, Mastodon's overwhelmingly the best model. Even Bluesky has already shown that it's too centralizable, and I think very few people have considered the idea that "you can take it with you" is actually a bug as much as it is a feature, it's like Bluesky has added on potential surveillance and less anonymity.

"Just be kind of like email" is better.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by almosthere »

grepfru_it wrote: post #256
thekid314 wrote: post #248

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I met Stallman once when he was pamphleting outside a beloved book store because they were using meetup to organize a book signing. The guy is consistent.

I used to make so much fun of RMS in the late 90s. Then I met him and my entire view on that man changed. He absolutely is doing the world a favor and it would benefit everyone to think long and hard what a world would be like without GNU today

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Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by cmckn »

kstrauser wrote: post #258
verdverm wrote: post #202

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> And as to that username bit, people are used to joe@gmail.com and joe@outlook.com being different people, and having to specify which one they’re trying to send an email to. User handles are unique in ATProto because of the domain, just like email. Not sure what the "except" part is about. Can you clarify? In ATProto, they are not "bare" ActivityPub is the same, except they are tied to the server you join. In ATPro…

Ah, to be clear, I was thinking of ActivityPub. How’s ATProto work for the 99.9% of people who don’t own domains?

You just get a *.bsky.social handle.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by Aeolun »

amiga386 wrote: post #138
lutoma wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment is a great illustration of the needlessly hostile interactions mentioned in the blog post. There's a nuanced technical discussion about the merits of adding this to Mastodon and whether the effort would really be worth it. Eugen made some reasonable points against it. But instead of engaging with the discussion in good faith, people like you automatically assume the worst intentions and claim Eugen perso…

I'd give him the benefit of the doubt 7 years ago. But it has been 7 years and the number of Mastodon instances just grows and grows, causing more and more useless traffic every time someone links to a site. 7 years of "limited dev time"? How much money have the world's webmasters had to pay out of their own pockets, so that nobody developing Mastodon has to spend their precious dev time on being a good netizen and n…

It sounds like you have a personal kind of beef with Mastodon?

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by jrm4 »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #142
mmooss wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Like the other poster said, there's nothing worth losing sleep over in the comments here. Some people trying to start flame wars about politics, and a guy who thinks it's funny to drop racial slurs. None of those is good (and they are all flagged to death which is good), but neither do they make this comment section some kind of cesspool that would show why one is correct to distance oneself from Mastodon.

This feels very analogous to my experience with the place. As a Black person (who absolutely loves the idea and model), it's weird.

Feels very much like a "you become what you hate situation," in my case, interacting with Black folks with whom I share probably like 97% similar views on just about everything -- and yet, (it's mild, no worries, but) I have been on the receiving end of the literal worst behavior I've ever experienced via strangers on social media. E.g. some mild doxxing, you aren't really Black etc.

(And for those curious/interested/familiar, yes it was "Bad Space" aligned people)

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by mothballed »

almosthere wrote: post #286
grepfru_it wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to make so much fun of RMS in the late 90s. Then I met him and my entire view on that man changed. He absolutely is doing the world a favor and it would benefit everyone to think long and hard what a world would be like without GNU today

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Can't beleive Epstein debacle ruined even rms. That guy's tentacles were everywhere.
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