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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 jeroenhd »

rckt wrote: post #361
latexr wrote: post #359

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> When there has to be a server that's being administrated by somebody And that somebody can be you. There are Mastodon servers operated by individuals for their friends or their small company. Anyone can host a server with their own rules.

Yes, I know this. But it feels overkilling to host a server which is capable of hosting thousands of users just for me alone. I'd like something small, dedicated just for my own usage. Kind of a way to have my RSS feed discoverable and commentable.

I run my own Mastodon instance and it's definitely heavy and unoptimized for this use case. That seems to be a common theme with Ruby on Rails applications, to be honest.

There are lighter clients that will integrate perfectly into Fediverse/Mastodon networks, though, such as GoToSocial (https://gotosocial.org/) with its light and low-tech UI.

Many Mastodon alternatives expose a Mastodon API so that you can use the standard Mastodon apps with them, even if you're not really hosting Mastodon itself.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by Yodel0914 »

brabel wrote: post #373
theshackleford wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wasn’t that great 10 or twenty years ago either. I ran a sizable community in my county in the late to mid 2000s and got death threats, human feces mailed to my home, calls and visits to my place of employment and constant threats of various kinds of lawsuits. Eventually my blood pressure was driven too high and I fucked it off. A high percentage of people are like barely functioning apes flinging shit and I just…

Kind of funny how you complain about people being mean to you and then accuse a high percentage of them of being apes flinging shit. You have some unresolved issues.

I think when you get literal shit mailed to you, it’s ok to think that people can be shit-flinging apes.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by rckt »

Yodel0914 wrote: post #380
rckt wrote: post #361

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I know this. But it feels overkilling to host a server which is capable of hosting thousands of users just for me alone. I'd like something small, dedicated just for my own usage. Kind of a way to have my RSS feed discoverable and commentable.

Do you know about gotosocial? That’s pretty much exactly what you’re describing.

Never heard of it. Thanks! I'll take a look.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by [deleted] »

Tepix wrote: post #366
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's the people you follow and perhaps your Mastodon instance. I suggest setting one up on your own.

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Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by Digit-Al »

mdasen wrote: post #136
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.

Yea, it just feels calmer, where you can follow neat and quirky people who aren't posting like they're addicted to it. It also feels like one place that can just keep going. With BlueSky, I know they're going to need to find a business model to cover the $36M worth of VC they've taken, many millions in salaries and hardware costs they've paid out, and provide a healthy return for all that risk. Mastodon feels like a…

Do you mean $300M for ByteDance? Because $300B dwarfs $1.5B and $3.4B.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by master-lincoln »

mothballed wrote: post #356
globular-toast wrote: post #330

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" " -- you, probably Also, if you're not sceptical about it, you should be able to explain to someone like Stallman (as someone apparently later did) why it's still bad for children. If you can't then you're just as "stupid", the only difference is you happen to conform to the current accepted belief on this particular matter.

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Opinions like this give rise to fascism. You can not talk about how we want to protect children and where the boundaries are because some lunatics immediately accuse anybody of harming THE CHILDREN.

If someone is romantically into kids this is not socially accepted in most cultures, but someone merely being attracted without following up with actions does not harm any kids.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by ants_everywhere »

Tepix wrote: post #366
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's the people you follow and perhaps your Mastodon instance. I suggest setting one up on your own.

No it's not. I mute people who post that sort of content and it's the math instance.

If you are forced to see it despite spending most of your time silencing it, it's not the people you follow it's the culture.

Judging from the CEO's letter and actions, it sounds like it's possible a bad culture example was set by the top of the project. Although that doesn't always happen. For example, Linux doesn't have a culture of over-the-top personal insults despite that being Linus's personal style.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by zimpenfish »

mdasen wrote: post #136
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.

Yea, it just feels calmer, where you can follow neat and quirky people who aren't posting like they're addicted to it. It also feels like one place that can just keep going. With BlueSky, I know they're going to need to find a business model to cover the $36M worth of VC they've taken, many millions in salaries and hardware costs they've paid out, and provide a healthy return for all that risk. Mastodon feels like a…

> ByteDance being the "tiny" player at an estimated $300B value (tiny compared to the $1.5B of Meta and $3.4B of Google).

$300M? Or $1.5T? Because $300B isn't tiny compared to $1.5B.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by master-lincoln »

balder1991 wrote: post #238
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.

This is because you are holding it wrong. BlueSky and Twitter and alike are algorithmic attention grabbers. They try to feed you as much controversial stuff you might react to as possible. In the fediverse, there are no recommendation algorithms yet, so you need to make sure to connect with people you are interested in proactively.

Re: I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Post by master-lincoln »

Maken wrote: post #370
gargron wrote: post #268

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

Which controversial topic did you fail/refuse to crack down on the fediverse?

Why would it be their responsibility to succeed at topics in the fediverse more than it's your responsibility?

So which topics did you fail/refuse to crack down on the fediverse @Maken?

I personally failed to push harder for DIDs so switching servers without losing followers is easier.

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