Today has been one hell of a day! I have been working on both devops and code optimization non-stop, as well as answering questions and e-mails. A lot of ms have been shaved off of requests and background jobs. Instance admins should probably update to the latest master. I'll be looking into adopting a more stable release system than just the master branch.
Oh also, I did read that "Mastodon will go extinct" article. The author doesn't get it, and didn't reach out to me at all.
@Gargron Reasons mastodon.social will go extinct according to the author:
1. I'm embarrassed to say the word toot.
2. I don't understand the word federated.
@johnson @Gargron Also the idea he has of social networks is so English centric. In how many languages "toot" has no meaning?
What I see in this article is how much people are completely brain washed by the archetypes of social networks. It has to be centralized, under an identifiable banner (probably in English), everyone can be found via the internal search engine, etc.
Mastodon's popularity is great because it puts the idea of a federated web in front of many people.
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