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@wakest
can we all agree that its good that mashable is writing articles about how bad mastodon is? cause maybe it will scare away anyone who reads mashable from ever signing up and polluting the fediverse with their drivel
http://mashable.com/2017/04/05/mastodon-wont-survive/
@JeffM he doesn't respect privacy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE4tWeK4m-c
@wakest The person who wrote that article has obviously not spent the last 6 years trying to get everything from StatusNet to Diaspora(wherever the bloody star goes) running and is now just happy that StatusNet kinda works and looks pretty good.
Mastodon is great. Some people literally gave all for the vision of federated social networking. The level of functionality on OStatus networks in 2017 is where everyone made it sound 5 years ago but it was crumbly underneath. This is clunky and stable. This is what it should be, a reasonable proof of concept that lays out the short to medium road map. @wakest
@superbranch complex things that are not money oriented take time and lots of energy. I have been following federated and distributed networks for years now and so happy to see all these people leaning about it for the first time this week. knowing that that information is now stuck in peoples heads and later when they are having a conversation about how a future network will be built they will be able to chime in and help the future be more open. #idealist
@wakest Seconded!
@wakest this article is written by someone who thinks he understands the technology and platform, but he does not. Soap boxing before researching. It's really the saddest and dumbest kind of pseudo-journalism.
@wakest Sounds like there's a distinction to be made between an obsession with scale and a desire for appropriate networks. If Mashable writers focus on scale, they may miss what we're actually building here. Which isn't about specifically excluding Mashable readers but might be about a kind of “fragmentation”. If things go on this way, Mastodon may be uninteresting to advertisers and fun for users.
@Enkerli I was being mean I read mashable sometimes. I just hate the tone of the articles they just wrote. and they obviously spent 10 minutes researching before they posted them. I actually hope everyone leans about federation whether they are annoying humans or not.
@wakest Yep. Federation gets some people really hopeful (including those behind #StatusNet) and gets dismissed by some pundits. But it can be the focus of nuanced discussion among people with varying degrees of expertise and levels of experience.
@wakest it does seem like things he disliked are things that appeal to others