- cross-posted to:
- thenexusofprivacy
- cross-posted to:
- thenexusofprivacy
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11571975
Fork it! It’s time for a Mastodon hard fork
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11571975
Fork it! It’s time for a Mastodon hard fork
This is unhinged. Someone building the mainline of an interoperable communication service should absolutely be helping others making software trying to interoperate with it. Complaints can be made about Rochko rejecting PRs, but complaining that other people’s time is going towards a thing they don’t want is insane.
Even ignoring the ideological reasons to not want facebook integration: There are only so many hours in the day and so many dollars in the donation bucket. If an open source project is dedicating a disproportionate percentage of that on a feature that a significant part of the community actively do not want: That is exactly WHY you fork a project.
And once we consider the ideological and safety related reasons to not want facebook and giant corporate interests involved?
I have a lot of issue with the people who decide the answer is harassment and hate. But if enough development and organizational energy want to fork this? Fuckin’ A.
What does a hard fork get this author that blocking meta’s domains from their account not get them?