Richard MacManusDec 21, 2022
My interview with @blaine, who was there at the very beginning of Twitter; now he's focused on building #fediverse infrastructure that will help #Mastodon scale. https://thenewstack.io/why-a-twitter-founding-engineer-is-now-all-in-on-mastodon/
Why a Twitter Founding Engineer Is Now All-in on Mastodon

Blaine Cook was there at the very beginning of Twitter; now he's focused on building fediverse infrastructure that will help Mastodon scale.

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Show threadJames GleickDec 21, 2022
@ricmac @blaine I happen to agree with this: “Many people would like to join a Mastodon instance that lets them open their posts up for indexing, so that we can search content on that instance — it’s good for topic tracking, monitoring news, etc.”
Show threadJoe CotelleseDec 21, 2022

@JamesGleick @ricmac @blaine Not sure why that isn't a per user or per post thing.

I could default to index and then flag some no index or vice versa. Then I get to choose how findable my content is.

Show threadMatt MatboxDec 21, 2022

@JoeCotellese @JamesGleick @ricmac @blaine I am sure we will get there. The influx of folks getting into Mastodon will (as explained in the interview) lead to investment into features.

(@mozilla is going to launch (well, test) a public instance soon - it that's not a turning point I don't know what is..)

Show threadCDunnDec 21, 2022
@ricmac @JamesGleick @matt @mozilla @blaine @JoeCotellese I’m afraid what will happen is that, e.g., Microsoft will produce a proprietary “Mastodon compatible” server software with lots of features like searchabilty. Then they will add extensions—the best features are only available from another Microdon instance. W/ enough market share, their support of the open source will become progressively more buggy…
Show threadJoe Cotellese
@CDunnPasadena @ricmac @JamesGleick @matt @mozilla @blaine I don’t know, that’s not working out too well for IIS.
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