Hot take: the reason a lot of techies are upset about Mastodon is that it's the first pure and beautiful thing our industry has produced in like 5 years
@nolan not approaching the matter with an appropriate amount of gravitas, instead going for incessant vore shitposts and calling their things TOOT and all
@nolan let's be honest. That's a tall order. The last 5 years have massive wins in cryptocurrencies, decentralized bittorrent, Riot communications, better graphics rendering engine, uprising of gnome-shell, etc. Mastodon is super cool but lets avoid hyperbole ๐
@luisbg heh yeah I'm probably overselling it. but seriously I haven't felt so pumped about something since... I dunno, Firefox OS? Signal? Guess that makes it <5 years though. ๐
@nolan however...i do believe it's a good thing we have something new to try.. whether it successes or fails, doesn't matter. we would all have learnt from it ๐