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
blaine
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