Peter GasstonNov 7, 2016
Mastodon is a good technical achievement, but that’s not enough. Some thoughts on a path to success. Open for discussion.
https://medium.com/@stopsatgreen/mastodon-is-a-good-technical-achievement-but-thats-not-enough-a6ece58954e0
Show threadEugen RochkoNov 7, 2016
@stopsatgreen Uhh I appreciate having Medium articles being written about my project, but I have some issues with the content. It's not "mostly" a single developer, it *is* just me. Secondly it's not even less than a year it's less than 4 months in total, so give me some time, jeez
Show threadEugen RochkoNov 7, 2016
@stopsatgreen I have this huge list of features people have been asking for (44 issues open on GH right now) and like 10 of them are about abuse-prevention. But I had to prioritize other features first, the ones that make people use the service in the first place
Show threadEugen RochkoNov 7, 2016
@stopsatgreen Re: funding, firstly, development of Mastodon and hosting of this instance is funded by my Patreon. Secondly, it's open source. You don't need me or mastodon.social to keep going - you can start your own instance, and decide how it's funded. The code is already open source and licensed under AGPL, it'll never be able to be closed down or bought out.
Show threadinmysocks Of Doom, Naked KSC
@Gargron @stopsatgreen It is also built on GNU social, which has shown its own ability to be self-sustaining. As awesome as Mastodon is at the moment it is still under very heavy development. I am not sure it is even really out of beta. From what I can see the a lot of the success of mastodon is based on the fact that @Gargron is looking at it from more than a purely developer standpoint. Look at a lot of the other gnu social implementations to see the difference.
Nov 7, 2016 at 1:28pmWeb