blaineJan 3, 2023

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.

Show threadDr Pieter PeachJan 3, 2023
@blaine @Gargron is it not simply a matter of forking the instance software, building out desired elements and seeing what consensus evolves? To be honest, much of the requested feature set appears to be amenable to client side software development anyway.
Show threadblaineJan 3, 2023

@PieterPeach @Gargron I don't think so, no. Mastodon-the-software is massively dominant right now, and so there's no way for any other implementation to make a meaningful shift with regards to specific feature support without significant conceptual fragmentation.

"Governance" might look like encouraging and supporting forks, though! Even just having a bunch of fork/alt software authors contributing to the discussion of what is "officially" supported would be really great.

Show threadDr Pieter Peach
@blaine @Gargron If something like #QuoteToots are important enough to prompt sufficient migration to alternative instances that support them (complexity and compatibility with the network and probability of defederation aside) this might trigger some reflection on how to implement a feature in a way that protects those with concerns (eg user opt-out from QTs of their posts)
Jan 3, 2023 at 12:09pmToot!
Show thread…might work for coffee…Jan 3, 2023

@PieterPeach @blaine
I am not sure whether we create a XMPP and which XEPs are in your server like situation here by reducing it on forks.

XMPP was not bad, the issue is fragmentation. Meanwhile Mastodon (the trademark) lies with @Gargron
For good or bad he defines via his company what Mastodon is

Most news and references in the last waves dropped fediverse mentions and only called it Mastodon

I am doubtful every feature should create potential pressure to migrate. Users are less informed