gargron · HackerTrans

8 months agodiscuss

It did not happen in public, and is not related to any public events.

11 months agodiscuss

ActivityPub is embraced by:

  - Threads  
  - Flipboard  
  - WordPress  
  - micro.blog  
  - NodeBB  
  - PeerTube  
  - Pixelfed  
  - GoToSocial  
  - Akkoma  
  - ...and countless smaller projects

It is by no means just Mastodon.

gargron

11 months agodiscuss

ActivityPub can be used for both public and private messaging, though I don't think the e-mail standard needs to be retired anytime soon.

gargron

last yeardiscuss

Firefox is still a great browser with probably the best devtools.

gargron

last yeardiscuss

I'm sorry, but by what metric are musical bands "dead"? I'm asking because I follow a lot of bands that are actively releasing new music and touring across the US and Europe. Not to mention the musical festivals.

gargron

last yeardiscuss

Yeah.

gargron

2 years agodiscuss

Arguably, Bluesky being spun off from Twitter and having Jack Dorsey as one of the founding members is a somewhat Meta-like advantage, in a sense of immediate legitimacy in the press and networking opportunities/connections in Silicon Valley. Mastodon had to start absolutely from scratch. I had zero connections to anyone important when I launched it. Bluesky also raised over $8M in venture capital funding, while Mastodon was being developed on a $0/mo budget for the first year of its existence, and something like $5000/mo for the next 5. Our current annual budget of around $500K still pales in comparison to the money Bluesky has at their disposal right now to spend on e.g. marketing. They also have the advantage of not really trying to do decentralization. That being said, venture capital money isn't free, while Mastodon's funding comes from the community with no strings attached, so in the long term, I believe in our approach.

gargron

2 years agodiscuss

Mastodon has changed quite significantly since a few years back. We take product design seriously and spend a sizeable amount of our resources on improving usability and reducing friction. If you could, please try again, and let me know how it goes this time. If you are an Android user, I strongly recommend our official app, as in my (obviously biased) opinion it is the best social media app right now and the user experience I am most proud of.

gargron

2 years agodiscuss

Do you not think that Meta onboarding its 2 billion Instagram userbase into Threads had something to do with it?

gargron

2 years agodiscuss

Why do you believe that about Mastodon?

gargron

2 years agodiscuss

What in your opinion are the pain points in the current sign up process?

gargron

3 years agodiscuss

mastodon.social runs nightly releases off of our GitHub. Anyone can run nightlies to get these features. Or wait for the stable. What's hacky about this feature?

gargron

6 years agodiscuss

I don't think it's at all surprising that there is no relation between tech stack and business success. End-users don't care if you use a single PHP file or a Go binary, they never get to see that anyway. So I don't really see "it was all a single PHP file" as a gotcha. The whole thing could've been coded in Assembly, the difference is in the effort required for development, ease of maintenance/scaling up and how well-guarded you are against vulnerabilities.

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