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i thought i wanted to write a blog post but i think really the core ideas i’m trying to get at is that

• there is a heavy conflict between mastodon development & many (often either potential or now ex-)users, and most of the current userbase, over whether the goal of mastodon is to create a One Big Fediverse; and
• mastodon development is only finally conceding to those who want community features by allowing it in a way that does everything it can to make instances indistinguishable, in service of the One Big Fediverse-
• i think trying to create the One Big Fediverse, even if it was possible to achieve in the past, is long past possible to achieve, as the software necessarily requires the fediverse to be developed by people who are, socially, entirely uncooordinated; at a technical level the fediverse has always been, and will continue to be, encouraging fragmentation
• fragmentation is not inherently a design flaw! we of course need to be conscious of the trade-offs (which the constant complaints of non-users have long made obvious), but of course all design is about navigating contradictions these trade-offs; imo the best future for the mastodon-compatible fediverse would involve doubling down on everything that is interesting about fragmented and non-identical instances that are technologically capable of enabling communiciation across those instances

https://twitter.com/weirdlilguys/status/1519158644843024385

is it possible to embed a post in a way that includes its replies

i have thoughts about this new mastodon post and it might be worth making a blog for it

(“be Twitter” does not count)

that said i would not exactly mind these features becoming a thing

remember when i said this software has no clear design or goals

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

GlitchCat is now glaceon-enhanced

ghost catboyfriend wife

i have no solution to this pawblem except for the fact that our fork explicitly says it’s for GlitchCat’s users

it’s very sympomatic of the fact that mastodon markets itself and is evangelized for in a completely generic way, as a twitter replacement,

---and more impawtantly, that the software is not explicit about its design goals (to the extent that it even has those),---

that i’ve had and witnessed many conversations complaining about mastodon that were in complete contradiction with one another. noboby agrees on what the software is for, but they all think the software is for them