Stopped reading at "Mastodon BDFL (Benevolent Dictator for Life) ".
Giant eyeroll. It even mentions there’s a dozen forks already, just upset that none of the changes have been merged to the origin upstream.
Make an argument without devolving to namecalling in the first 2 paragraphs.
It’s not namecalling, it is a term that gets used and that Rochko talked about himself in an interview. There’s a footnote.
Sorry … downvoted.
The statement in the article had a footnote that provided a link to a 2022 Verge article in which Rochko said on the “BDFL model”:
That’s what I would prefer to stick with, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think there’s better ways to involve other people and have better communication.
Moreover his behaviour in maintaining Mastodon is very much inline with this model. It wasn’t name calling, it is literally what he is and happy to be described as.
y tho
Why even link a fricking DRAFT?
To get feedback! I often send out drafts to newsletter subscribers and post them on Mastodon and in the !thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone community … I got a lot of good feedback on this one which is incorporated in the revised version.
Iceshrimp is the way
Can you link to their website or GitHub?
Thanks! Will definitely check it out.
I think the author is a bit late to the game. There are like 20 different forks of Mastodon to address exactly that, which some developers have already migrated to. Additionally there are Misskey, Pleroma with their respective forks. Some of them are pretty active.
I don’t think pleroma or misskey were ever mastodon forks. They’re just better alternatives that do something approximately similar.
