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1. sim@shitposter.club's status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 06:07:13 JST sim
   I still think that mastodon has been a net-negative to the fediverse, there are better metrics for success than bringing more people here too. Like keeping the spirit of the values here alive, being able to collaborate and creating a sense of community.
   • Ardainian Hebrew Israelite (ardainianright@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 06:07:12 JST Ardainian Hebrew Israelite

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     @sim
     Coming together to harass Mastofags does create a sense of community. So in that sense they are useful.
   • Pride of Utopia (deerblood@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 06:24:19 JST Pride of Utopia

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     • Ardainian Hebrew Israelite
     @ArdainianRight @sim It's a very nice feeling when I go poast a picture of a noose at a libtard and all my buds are there telling them to kill themselves
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   • sim@shitposter.club's status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 08:52:40 JST sim

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     • realcaseyrollins
     @realcaseyrollins I made a really long post on this but just lost it, alas.
     
     To write it in a nutshell, I don't think that development happened in the way you are thinking here. I think that Pleroma and Mastodon were happening around the same time, Pleroma met a need for GNU Social as the code was a mess. Mastodon made it harder to focus on this as Pleroma tried to keep compatible with the changes it kept making without regard to the rest of the fediverse. Mastodon literally broke things that needed someone else to fix, moved over to activitypub which made things stop working (GS didn't have scopes so you missed a lot of the timeline, for example. GS was public.), and it doesn't seem like gargron was the type to collab back then. He wanted to write Mastodon in his own way and it didn't matter how it impacted the rest of the fediverse. It was a mess. I don't say it was a net-negative lightly. I think that the fediverse has had trouble with funding and development in general, and you could say that the modern softwares fractured that further. They are still behind GNU Social on certain features, they had to start all over which set things backwards. On saying this, you could argue it was necessary to start over with a better coding language. So there are pros and cons related.
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   • realcaseyrollins (realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world)'s status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 08:52:41 JST realcaseyrollins

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     @sim I mean I think it’s a net positive in that it has inspired things like #Pleroma and #Soapbox. #Mastodon is the first of the modern #Fediverse software IIRC