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 threadLucid00Jan 3, 2023

@blaine @Gargron this was already solved.

ActivityPub is a W3C standard and WebFinger is an IETF standard.

I think betting it all on Mastodon is a bigger issue IMO, it's like saying that Chromium should have better governance instead of promoting browser engine diversity.

My only concern right now is the lack of a standardized REST API for clients (preferably something that uses OpenID Connect instead of just OAuth).

Show threadFeralRobots

@lucid00 @blaine @Gargron
No analogy is perfect but this one's really interesting (& apt given your instance).

That said my still-naive take on it is that Mastodon is far from a sure bet.

Jan 3, 2023 at 6:11pmWeb