In the future, we plan to add end-to-end encrypted messaging and an exciting groups functionality to our software, together with further updates to our well-received official apps.
huh
@aescling wait “groups”?!?!?!?!!
@aescling eugen has opposed groups from day 1 so i am very interested in hearing more about this
@Lady now THAT is interesting
@Lady it almost feels like to me that eugen is finally allowing community building features but is trying to insist that ideally, what instance you’re on ought to be irrelevant. this is just a guess of course
i’m not sure how i feel about this, though i do think that allowing community building without requiring the skills for instance adiministration would be..... actually really good
@Lady @Satsuma anyway if you have to have multiple independent instances run in a necessarily socially uncoordinated fashion then the best way to go about things is almost certainly to double down on all the interesting possibilites that entails. you have to deal with the fact that it simply cannot sustain a One Big Fediverse anyway
@Lady @Satsuma i was going to say thst some people join for the One Big Fediverse and regard it as a serious design flaw that it does not work like that in practice, but then again, i have literally only seen that opinion held by people who do not use mastodon anyway. selection bias i guess