Mastodawn

David Ogren Feb 17, 2024

jacobian Feb 16, 2024

The longer version of this toot: https://jacobian.org/2024/feb/16/paying-maintainers-is-good/

Paying people to work on open source is good actually - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

If you have a problem with maintainers getting paid then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate.

David Ogren Feb 17, 2024

jacobian Feb 11, 2024

“We believe that open source should be sustainable and open source maintainers should get paid!”

Maintainer: *introduces commercial features*
“Not like that”

Maintainer: *works for a large tech co*
“Not like that”

Maintainer: *takes investment*
“Not like that”

David Ogren Feb 16, 2024

@christianselig the feature I'd like for Juno is access to "thumbs up", "add to watch later", and "not interested". "Not interested" especially so that I can clean up my recommendations. Thanks for the app!

David Ogren Feb 1, 2024

Dan the Architect 🎧Jan 31, 2024

Taylor Swift: Please register to vote!
MAGA: She’s a witch!!

David Ogren Jun 22, 2023

Seeing @lisamelton posts today reminds me of something. There is a flood of people who want to tell you that trans people only exist because of some kind of “woke” indoctrination. But, if so, why are are we seeing so many people, late in life, coming out as trans? With so much sacrifice. Could it not be that we are finally coming close to a world that will (at minimum) tolerate them?

I am cis. (F you Elon). I am straight. I am privileged. If I can be happy for Lisa, so can you. I owe Lisa for her contributions to tech. So do you.

I now have role models, friends, family, and coworkers who are not cis. WTF does anyone think this hurts me in any way?

David Ogren Jun 14, 2023

John Gruber Jun 10, 2023

Microsoft should create and launch a Reddit clone, keep the API completely open for client developers (but not data miners), pay top Reddit moderators to move their communities over, and use the project’s data for continuously training their own AI models.

David Ogren Jun 10, 2023

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Christian Selig Jun 9, 2023

I’ve had a lot of questions about Reddit’s planned AMA today and “What if they…”, so I added a section to the bottom of my post to answer that and thought I’d share it here too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/

📣 Apollo will close down on June 30th. Reddit’s recent decisions and actions have unfortunately made it impossible for Apollo to continue. Thank you so, so much for all the support over the years. ❤️

Hey all, It's been an amazing run thanks to all of you. Eight years ago, I posted in the Apple subreddit [about a Reddit app I was looking for...

David Ogren Jun 10, 2023

Justin Ferrell Jun 9, 2023

There is no point in even having the #Reddit IPO now. The CEO has been getting publicly owned all week.

David Ogren Jun 10, 2023

sdw Jun 9, 2023

Reddit’s AMA with its CEO on their API (read: third party app killing) is a train wreck. These are remarks from their CEO. Why does Reddit consistently have such terrible leadership?

Before this, Huffman had no public interactions with the community or website for 10 months. Imagine the CEO of Facebook or twitter not posting for a year.

Reddit communities should go dark to demand this guy leaves. This is some of the most incompetent management I’ve seen.

David Ogren Dec 9, 2022

Getting into Mastadon has reminded me a lot of the early days of Twitter. But not only in the good ways. Curating a timeline is hard. Harder than you think. At first it is sparse. Then a flood, but an echo chamber. Then the “I need to make some lists” plan so that the impulse follows don’t drown the people that I really want to read in completionist mode. I remember the same thing in the very early web, and also with RSS. But I don’t feel like we ever found a good solution.