Eugen @Gargron@mastodon.social

My dream for Mastodon is for it to be a viable choice as a publishing platform for any creator. In other words, for people to not feel like they're locked in to Twitter or Instagram if they want to be professionally successful.

Mystery solved, they could not find the contact e-mail and the random guesses didn't work. I'll make the e-mail more prominent on joinmastodon.org and setup some aliases.

I don't really care because I have nothing to add anyway but it's strange to read that sentence, then look at the 3 different mailboxes I manage (only one of which would be the "correct" channel for something like this, but I digress) and not see any such e-mail in any of them

"Representatives from the Mastodon project didn’t immediately respond to an email asking if they shared the critics’ concerns."

Wait, what? I didn't receive no e-mail from Ars Technica. Where did they send it?!

Now I'm getting worried the Mastodon iOS app welcome screen will be so good people won't want to leave it. Not sure if I should show it just yet. Don't want to spoil the surprise...

Just to reiterate in relation to Gab getting hacked, I’m not aware of any vulnerabilities in Mastodon at the moment and based on what I have seen in their code modifications the vulnerabilities they have are the ones they themselves introduced (along with never porting security patches from us)

Well well well, it's 12am and I need to have a call in 3 hours and I haven't slept yet

Addressing the elephant in the room but it's a literal elephant and you are talking to it

Being able to build the official Mastodon app for iOS in xcode and play around with it in an emulator to the see the results of weeks of UX and engineering work is a pretty amazing feeling

"How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%"

https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/

Turns out it's inefficiently parsing 10 MB of JSON every time you load the game