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The Fediverse is a great idea, but tbh there’s a lot about the current generation of apps that is centralised in other ways that will doubtless compromise them later. As we can see from how even instance mods can behave, any concentration of power at all can and will lead to fief building. The aim should be to allow the network paradigm to have enough plurality and redundancy to outlive such politicking.
In the past few months, the ownership of open-source projects has been a recurring news subject. For instance, people have questioned control of certain WordPress community projects being in the hands of WordPress’s co-creator Matt Mullenweg. Mastodon is trying to avoid situations where only one person has decision-making powers with today’s new structure.
The steps taken linking Mastodon > Fediverse > Wordpress > Matt Mullenweg makes sense and is the kind of publicity/damage control the platform needs to get ahead of.
This is an encouraging development. Decoupling development from server management will help level the playing field.
The blog post noted that the new Europe-based nonprofit entity will wholly own the Mastodon GmbH for-profit entity. The organization is in the process of finalizing the place where the new entity will be set up.
could this be cause for concern down the line? i mean this as a genuine question. i don’t really know how these things work. my understanding is some weird non-profit and profit mixture is what led to problems at openAI. but that said, i also know that the people at the company make a difference, and sam altman is very likely much worse than the mastodon CEO. anyways, it would be nice to know more about this relationship between the profit and non profit side of things.
Iirc, Mozilla has a similar structure and it causes some problems with donations
This is good news and will affect its dozens of users.
I know you meant it in jest, but I think the last I saw, it was at 9mil and growing steadily.
And TBH, that relative lack of general attention is probably a good thing. Too much growth too fast could swamp or sink some instances.
Regardless of user numbers, it seems DEAD there. I go out looking for content and can’t find anything worth sticking around for.
If you follow hashtags, and you’re a big frickin’ nerd, Mastodon actually has pretty good content.
I follow lots of cool stuff but also notice that none of that cool stuff gets any sort of interaction whatsoever. That’s because discoverability is shit. Search is broken. The only thing that gets any sort of attention is TRUSK BAD.
BSky has the right idea with user-configurable/sharable algorithms. So there are still algorithms, but you the user are entirely in control of them.
Oh, I hear you…
Filters can make it so the Mastodon feed doesn’t force you to want to walk out into traffic.
Yeah, I don’t have that problem, because I just don’t follow those sorts of accounts but popping over to the search column also coincidentally throws you into the “trending” posts and holy balls.
I tried searching my interests of hockey, guitar, and recording music. There were a few things, but not much. I don’t have the highest expectations either. I know we are in the Fediverse.
Yep. The “big frickin’ nerd” part carries my statement pretty hard.
Homelab, videogames, Linux stuff… Content for miles.
Lol. I get it. I play COD and Apex Legends. =C
Be the change you want to see, man. I lurk on mastodon and love hockey. Surely we’re not the only ones (bit of a do as I say, not as I do moment on my part lol)
Have you tried doing things like following hashtags? That’s the best way to find content, I’ve found. If you write your own comments, you should also use hashtags so people can find you.
None of that will happen by default, and there’s no algorithm that will do that for you.
I’ll try.
There’s dozens of us! Oh wait, yeah.
