ALLIE ❤ HARTI don't want good, elegant, well-engineered social media software goddammit. I want trashy, broken, hacked-together pieces of shit that actually are sensitive to and meet the needs of me and my community.
Here's today's #take: Mastodon is too big and trying to be too much for too many people and it's going to fail all of them unless it gets its shit together and finds ways to better help them help themselves.
This is not even on the docket right now in Masto dev. Not even on the horizon of things to consider. That one social network can't do it all and we need to find ways to empower communities to step in and build and technologies where we have failed. That instance administrators might have widely differing needs and there needs to be standardized ways of approaching and communicating those problems.
IDK I feel like I've said all this a million times before.
I would much rather be on software hacked together by a small group of queer friends to suit their personal needs than any large-scale open-source project. Regardless of how well it's administrated or how nicely it handles its pull requests. IMHO.
Unfortunately queer friends tend to be pretty busy folk so for now Mastodon is what we're stuck with.
Anyway I'm done talking about this I'm just tired of takes about what Mastodon should or shouldn't do as if the problem is merely one side not recognizing the truth in the other's statements and not the entire conceit of the project as a centralized, one-size-fits-all solution.
If I sound bitter it's because my friends are being hurt.
ispaul@u2764 Spin your own instance? Fork the project?
Conrad Pankoff@u2764 well, do I have a treat for you! My implementation is absolute garbage - it barely even works! :D
beatrix bitrot@u2764 hey me too! that's why I made glitch.social and ephemeral.glitch.social. I'm trying to decide what to modify next so if you have suggestions I'm all ears
Oracle(tm) e-Business Social 🎃@u2764 indieweb extreme selfdogfooding? https://indieweb.org/selfdogfood
post-neehu pup🔞😪😪😪@u2764 this is exactly how I feel
Joshua A.C. NewmanIf it meets the needs of you and your community, it's well-designed.
Trashy, broken, hacked together software that only its existing community likes is a hurdle; a paddle used for hazing, and the OSS community defense of software like that is regular ol' gatekeeping.
Design is how a thing works.