So, over the weekend, I’ve been talking a lot about the need to take Mastdon into a new community-focused direction, so I took time to write down some thoughts.
Spread this far and wide because it’s time for us to do something else.
https://h-i.works/2024/04/a-case-for-community.html
Please feel free to reach out with any questions or comments (in good faith) because this is a convo we need to have.
And I’m ready to get started today.
@are0h Tech illiterate question.
I fully agree with all of the problems and resolutions you've laid out, but I don't quite understand what a hard fork is
Would this be a situation where an instance itself could migrate, or would you need to make new instances and migrate over that way?
@Cyborgneticz A hard fork is a codebase that disconnects from original project. For example, Akkoma is a hard fork (thank goodness) from Pleroma. The codebases are similar but have fundamental points of divergence.
The goal is that current instances will be able to migrate to the new hard fork, so they can keep their communities intact while updating their overall experience in ways that differ from the main Masto project.
@are0h Gotcha that makes a lot of sense!
Thank you for explaining it to me, when I was looking it up I kept getting crypto examples which made me very confused
@are0h Lmao exactly, I knew you weren't that type of person so figured I should just ask
I really hope you get the support and backing you need to get this going! As Meta and all that shows up, we need an alternative
@Cyborgneticz We really do.
And Masto itself can be so much better than what it is right now.
@Cyborgneticz Yeah, when it’s up and running, I hope it kicks off a bunch of projects that give us different flavors that people can migrate to.
It’s just time for more variety.
Mad Villain
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