I am forever grateful to him for building & popularizing Mastodon, but I don't think @Gargron should be working on features at all right now.
Instead, he and the Mastodon non-profit (and a whole bunch of others) should be figuring out governance for collectively making decisions about Mastodon. Features in the Fediverse shouldn't be up to one guy, or even one company.
That's the whole point of the Fediverse. We do this together, or not at all.
@blaine @Gargron
The questions you raise are as old as politics and the Fediverse has grown so quickly that there are bound to be teething problems.
At one extreme is Twitter, forced to follow the whims of 1 man. The fediverse is the polar opposite. "We do it together or not at all" will simply not be possible for the whole of Mastodon. Where it could apply is in individual instances?
Some instances could offer quote tweets. Some could offer threads etc.
Self-governance within the fediverse
@greeneralia @blaine @Gargron I agree that individual instances should be able to disable quote posts (for the quotes, the quoted, or both)!
But won’t there always be decisions to make at the platform level—whether to implement, how to implement—that require group decision-making at the cross-instance level?
Actually, that was not my proposal.
I do not think instances should ban other instances.
I think each individual might be able to block other instances if eg avoiding quote tweets is that important to the individual.
But in general we would all need to live and let live?
No doubt, we would need a few Masters of the Fediverse (Gargon has certainly earned the right!) but one hopes their interventions would become fewer and fewer as time passes?
@matt
No problem - I think the conversation is essentially a political one - how are we to organise ourselves in a universe of bubbles who want to connect?
Do we need a UN (yes probably) and if so do we fund them (yes, definitely!) and do we agree to be bound by their decisions (yes, hesitantly). Etc😘
blaine
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