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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 kstrauser »

rmoriz wrote: post #322
kstrauser wrote: post #309

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, I could see that. I just wanted to clarify that mastodon.social is an instance, not the instance. It’s not a special blessed server. If you turn on your own new server tomorrow, other servers will treat it identically to that one. Also, moderation policies vary wildly. The instance I run moderates much differently than mastodon.social, which tends to get a lot of criticism for being seen as chronically under-mo…

Just to clarify, my account was banned without a reasons mentioned. The „reason“/cause field is empty. I didn’t insult anyone, I didn’t break any laws, I didn’t call to unalive people. I didn’t violate TOS. I just dared to criticize the praise of the former East German regime, called it an „Unrechtsstaat“ which is not a controversial opinion and even part of the school curriculum. They shot their own people ar the bo…

I believe you. I absolutely would not have suspended your account for that. But in so many other cases, they’re too slow to respond to reports of spammers, scammers, etc.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by ku1ik »

ants_everywhere wrote: post #114

Mastodon seems pretty unhealthy to me. I logged in for the first time in months a few days ago and it was mostly angry memes, a surprising number of which were celebrating violence and murder. This is despite me aggressively muting people who post that sort of thing. I hope they find a niche, but the cultural damage may already be done.

It highly depends on an instance you join and a people you follow.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by AmbroseBierce »

gargron wrote: post #268
JadoJodo wrote: post #2

What happened last summer? (I couldn't find anything on it)

It did not happen in public, and is not related to any public events.

@dang if possible please stick this reply to the top, @gargron is the author himself (the CEO stepping down)

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by patrickdavey »

czbond wrote: post #44
patrickdavey wrote: post #30

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> Now.. if only DHH would do the same for Rails... Random comment - what is DHH gatekeeping about Ruby or Rails that would be better if he was not?

I guess I love the idea of the rails community being owned by the community not an individual. I find some of his stances on topics problematic (e.g the latest posting about London). Regarding rails itself I have no major issues, but, as titular head of rails itself I think he should be more inclusive.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by m-schuetz »

jrm4 wrote: post #285

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.

Decentralization sounds nice in theory but seems to be detrimental to this type of social media, though. I briefly tried mastodon, and it wasn't easily possible to explore content spread across various hosts, which made it uninteresring.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by KronisLV »

edoceo wrote: post #293
almosthere wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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It's possible for a person to be an absolute stupid asshole about one topic (children's well being) but right about other things (software). Should have just stayed in his lane. I admired this dude but those words are, kinda, punchable offense. TF with "voluntary" in there?!?

> I admired this dude but those words are, kinda, punchable offense.

I think that's pretty spot on. Saying stuff like that means that there shouldn't be celebration of the person or reverence towards them.

You can support the FSF views on free software and any good those do in the world, but it's not possible to ignore all of the other stuff a person has said.

One can guess whether he's not neurotypical to such a degree that he doesn't take a humane enough perspective (arguing about topics that perhaps shouldn't be argued about), but that doesn't really change anything.

When you want to talk about free software, probably talk about FSF not RMS.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by modo_mario »

jrm4 wrote: post #289
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.

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 ev…

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

What do you mean?

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by mkl »

arresin wrote: post #251
shakna wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A thread with a user that devolved into name calling. Or the Twitter fight where he encouraged people to DOS the rival. Or the account takeover CVE and repercussions.

Do you mean dox?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by rmoriz »

kstrauser wrote: post #331
rmoriz wrote: post #322

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to clarify, my account was banned without a reasons mentioned. The „reason“/cause field is empty. I didn’t insult anyone, I didn’t break any laws, I didn’t call to unalive people. I didn’t violate TOS. I just dared to criticize the praise of the former East German regime, called it an „Unrechtsstaat“ which is not a controversial opinion and even part of the school curriculum. They shot their own people ar the bo…

I believe you. I absolutely would not have suspended your account for that. But in so many other cases, they’re too slow to respond to reports of spammers, scammers, etc.

I reported several spammers impersonating with posts like „click here to verify your account“ phishing links and they disappeared in less than 2 minutes. There is little arguing about malicious content, it‘s about political and „tone“ related moderation. You can‘t be successful by just doing X but with an authorian left point of view. It‘s just the other side of the populistic, hateful spectrum. Some people want it, I get it. I‘m still running several accounts on other instances publishing open data and aggregating news (cycling and chess related) but the content I want to read is not created by people on the Fediverse.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by b00ty4breakfast »

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.

That's been my personal experience with Mastodon and other "fediverse" projects; they don't really fix the central problem with modern social media, the godawful culture.

I'm sure there are "nice" instances out there, but I gave up after trying 2-3 and having flashbacks to regular twitter from 7-8 years ago. No thanks

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