The idea that Mastodon onboarding *should* be hard, that it's *right* for it to be hard, is literally just elitism
We are now looking at the worst possible case scenario — #Musk clears marginalised people off #Twitter but the platform remains viable, advertisers and journalists continue to use it, and marginalised people are shut out of discourse on a worldwide scale — and part of that is a lack of will on the part of the old guard to reduce the friction involved in #Mastodon onboarding
You've been told about ways the onboarding processes can be made easier but you want to remain hip, cool, despite the fact that an actively antisocial social network is by definition strangling itself to death
You've been told about safe and ethical ways to implement #QuoteToots and yet you continue to insist that QTs are inherently unethical and unsafe and I'm beginning to think it's because you just don't want to be criticised
@epistemophagy it's open source just go write it!!!
of course website boy will actively try to fuck up things he's decided are bad, but
@davidgerard I actually read Eugen's specific reasoning for why QTs are bad and I don't remember specifically what it said because my memory is dogshit but I do remember that it impressed me even less than if the summaries I'd heard about it had been unconditionally true
@epistemophagy @davidgerard I always find it somewhat comical when people create open source software, but are then hostile to people wanting to extend the system.
If you want full control of the codebase, no one is forcing you to be open source.
@MGoCoder @epistemophagy @davidgerard I'm sure you can go fork the code yourselves if it means that much to you. What works in one town may not work in another. Mastodon isn't one singular place like other monolithic social networks surely.
@Murf @MGoCoder @davidgerard "I'm sure you can go fork the code yourselves" On what grounds are you sure?
@epistemophagy @MGoCoder @davidgerard it's open source isn't it?
@Murf @MGoCoder @davidgerard sure. Why does that mean we can go fork the code ourselves?
@Murf @MGoCoder @davidgerard (to be clear, I know what open source means)
@epistemophagy "did you just tell me to go fork myself" "i believe i did, bob"
@Murf @epistemophagy @davidgerard Delends on what people want. If they want something that remains bifurcated and never reaches critical mass then people will have to create a ton of different forks.
I get the feeling that a lot of old Mastodon users are mad that it has suddenly become popular.
@MGoCoder @Murf @epistemophagy @davidgerard Really? I haven’t experienced it yet.
@Murf @MGoCoder @epistemophagy @davidgerard i'm sure you don't need to be an annoying reply human yourself.