Post by @codefolio@ruby.social

2023-07-05 20:07 UTC

@TheActualBrian@mastodon.social @mahmoudajawad@mastodon.online @clifff@shakedown.social @Gargron@mastodon.social The thing is, if they do that, they *don't* cut themselves off. They make the rest of Mastodon look like a second-class service while taking a lot of the Mastodon userbase with them. "Join us or watch your service slowly degrade as other people use Meta-specific features that look lousy or just don't show up on your server."

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@codefolio@ruby.social 2023-07-05 20:10

@TheActualBrian@mastodon.social @mahmoudajawad@mastodon.online @clifff@shakedown.social @Gargron@mastodon.social Open Source fixes some problems but not others. XMPP was open-source, including the significant majority of clients. SMTP was open-source in the same way. Open Source doesn't magically make this go away, which is why there's a history of it causing severe problems to established Open Source ecosystems.

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@TheActualBrian@mastodon.social 2023-07-05 23:23

@codefolio@ruby.social @mahmoudajawad@mastodon.online @clifff@shakedown.social @Gargron@mastodon.social Guess what. Mastodon IS a second class service! I've been saying, for months, that the way to grow Mastodon is to have one, official app that's FULLY featured, because the general public won't use something that requires technical, back end knowledge to use. People keep telling me that's wrong, and Meta is about to show them just how wrong they are!

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