Yesterday Gargron helped me get his take on the project, so that I can write a mission statement. But, I would also love to hear your take, so I can combine the two into our collective statement.
This is me trying to be more transparent with the process.
Feel free to help me answer these questions:
1. What does Mastodon mean to you?
2. Where do you want to see the project go?
3. How do you talk about Mastodon with your friends?
@maloki for 1., i think that it's a pragmatic effort at decentralization using well-established client-server federation techniques and building on the prior art of gnu social is the striking thing.
continuity with certain kinds of established working pattern might well be a major lever for change. (and _protocols matter_.)
2. stay aggressively open. stay interoperable. keep leveraging stuff that is known to work. forget about the kinds of scale that drive facegooglemazon.
maloki
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