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.

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@blaine @Gargron that seems like a bureaucratic demand someone else do free work for you. Also it is not generally true that a good technical workgroup has political expertise. If you think there should be something else go work with w3c or something
Jan 3, 2023 at 12:18pmWeb
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@blaine @Gargron And I'm not using "bureaucratic" as a pejorative, but it's odd to demand that a group of developers who are extremely successful at what they do, stop work, and reinvent themselves as managers (or subordinates) of a governance process that is undoubtedly something they will find tedious or worse.