Matt LechNov 18, 2022
Tbf this safely beats discord
Show threadColin Mahns
@mattlech it's good. both on ideological grounds (open source tech is the closest we have to collective ownership at the moment) and it's a good tool once you understand the federation aspect of it.
Nov 18, 2022 at 5:06amMastodon for Android
Show threadMatt LechNov 18, 2022
@colinmahns curious if you're familiar with this critique re open source vs free software. Admittedly the decentralization stuff does leave me a little cold but open to it
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Show threadColin MahnsNov 18, 2022

@mattlech very familiar -- stallman and free software was part of early political development for me :)

"open source" won the branding battle but mastodon is something that falls under that category of "free software". I used the former since more people understand it. it's license is inherent to making sure any derivatives and all inatances also follow it. that only gets you so far of course, which is where the more thoughtfulness the dev team has made with its design decisions come in