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Some people think Mastodon is too weird to become popular:
I joined Twitter in 2008. We had to put a "d" in front of a tweet to convert it to a direct message and every other day you had some embarrassing private moments exposed because someone forgot about the “d”. Hashtags were just a community hack, introduced by Chris Messina to somehow tag content. Search? Hah, you wish! Tweets via SMS were supposed to be a thing. Oh, and the daily meet and greet with the failwhale. Totally not weird.
I'm really not worried about Mastodon scaling issues at all.
When I left Twitter in 2008, we had roughly twice as many users as the current combined Mastodon network, all running on one MySQL server that had the same specs as a high-end 2013 MacBook Pro, plus roughly 10 web servers and 5 queue servers.
To be fair, growth wasn't as rapid, and we had local-infra advantages over federated systems, but these problems are solvable and I have no doubt will be fixed soon.
*Hugops to all admins!*
As someone who co-led a global restructuring of a department a few years ago that affected several hundred employees, I know a thing or two about change management.
Managing people in times of change requires sensitivity, precise planning, and preparation to seriously keep morale and productivity from plummeting. The exact opposite is apparently the case at Twitter. How could even just one of Musk's advisors have said this approach is a good idea? 🤯
https://www.platformer.news/p/musk-discusses-putting-all-of-twitter
To break out of the Atlassian #productivity bubble, we're currently testing Github projects and wikis as Jira and Confluence replacements at Geek Cell.
So far we're quite happy with up. Less context switching = less distractions. Also, having a company wiki/handbook under version control with PR support (hopefully) means less outdated pages.
Let's see how this setup holds up once the first non-nerd joins the company 😄
„Heeey, remember when we fired you and your entire team via email without any explanation or personal feedback? lol, jk! Wanna come back to the office tomorrow? We have fruit baskets!“
From Twitter Slack: “sorry to @- everybody on the weekend but I wanted to pass along that we have the opportunity to ask folks that were left off if they will come back. I need to put together names and rationales by 4PM PST Sunday.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1589335188286603264
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