Well written article with many good reasons to NOT fork Mastodon.
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Well written article with many good reasons to NOT fork Mastodon.
The Trouble with Forking Mastodon - We Distribute
In recent weeks, people unhappy with Mastodon project talked about forking the project in a different direction. It's harder than it looks.
We Distribute (wedistribute.org)
My favorite part was about a previously attempted fork called the Florence project. According to the article, they were apparently better at having meetings than producing actual code. I laughed. I cried. I relived so many years of software development trauma.
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maybeanerdreplied to Ben Pate π€π» on last edited by
@benpate Arent there also successful forks like https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/ (https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/) ?
Yes, it's not as easy as "just fork it", but it's also not like there's no Mastodon forks that adjust behavior to their own needs and are flourishing
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Ben Pate π€π»replied to maybeanerd on last edited by
@maybeanerd Great point. And I have to say Iβm not totally up to speed with the state of whatever Mastodon forks that are already out there.
I guess this is my question: if there are already thriving forks of Mastodon, what benefit would another one provide?
The most likely outcome I see is a bunch of time spent with little to show for it.
Iβd rather see that energy go into improving the core of existing apps out there already (Mastodon or otherwise)
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@[email protected] this is a political fork, like that time io.js was a fork of node.js (and humorously, another fork called ayo.js, too).
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I should really do more research before I say anything too definitive.
I guess I'm too much of an engineer to get why you'd need a whole new fork for political reasons.
Do you have a link to the new project, and their reasons for discussing a fork? If someone wants Mastodon + extras, I'm curious about what would keep them from just contributing back to the core.
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@[email protected] you don't need to fork for political reasons, that's what I'm saying.. my response was mostly flippant and tongue-in-cheek.
Especially since right after I posted it, I looked into io.js and discovered that it was actually widely considered a successful political fork. It no longer exists but achieved their goals.
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MadeInDexreplied to Ben Pate π€π» on last edited by
@benpate Was actually just trying to learn about the problems of the Mastodon community, thanks for the article, very informative!
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Ben Pate π€π»replied to MadeInDex on last edited by
@madeindex Yeah, in the follow up discussions about this article, I heard that a fork is being discussed (dunno by whom) for *political* reasons (donβt know more details on the politics)
Iβd love to learn more about the specific politics that would make someone say that Mastodon wasnβt the right fit for them, but on the surface it seems like a bad move.
That effort would certainly be better spent on making Mastodon itself better, or helping out smaller projects instead.
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MadeInDexreplied to Ben Pate π€π» on last edited by
@benpate
Absolutely. Maybe about censorship or something similar? I think illegal content might get removed for example. These kind of topics usually split opinions about social media.So far the community seems pretty great especially compared to many other places and this account did not get banned for posting negatively about #monsanto / #Bayer, #nestlè and #Vanguard / #Blackrock
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@[email protected] @[email protected] "political" as in of or relating to policies, such as governance. The main issue I heard of were disagreements over the new board members for the US based Mastodon foundation
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MadeInDexreplied to julian on last edited by [email protected]