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.
This “Jon” guy has been writing these fucking long ass screeds about all this for at least a year now.
Maybe if this motherfucker stopped writing and took some time to learn to code and then contribute to the codebase themselves, they might have more luck. As it stands, all they do is grandstand about the way things should be without even trying to understand the technical side.
Seriously, the pages and pages and pages written by non-technical people about “how things ought to be” when they aren’t willing to put in the legwork to figure out how any of the technical side fucking works or how to get the technical side to fit “how things ought to be” its just fucking blowing smoke out their ass.
I get that Mastodon has problems, but complaining about the problems while doing nothing yourself to improve the issues feels just so worthless.
Contribute to the code base or shut the fuck up about your demands.
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.
You’re right. I implied that with the “additionally”. I don’t like Ruby on Rails and all the resource usage of Mastodon anyways. I’d like something more efficient and with less frameworks involved.