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”?!?!?!?!!

@Lady yeah

@aescling eugen has opposed groups from day 1 so i am very interested in hearing more about this

@Lady wait what

@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

@aescling which is hilarious because @Satsuma and i have been having conversations with people in fandom coders who are like “this is the way it should be” and all being like No You Don’t Understand Nobody On Mastodon Wants That

@Lady @Satsuma nobody here wants what exactly?

@aescling @Satsuma having instances be bland interchangable spaces with some community features layered on top as opposed to like, what darius describes in run your own social

@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