Beginning to believe that @Gargron doesn't want me contributing to #mastodon — he's now partially recreated three of my pull requests that I've worked on.

0x

@thisismissem I didn't see it and I'm not close to anyone involved, but I respect your effort to improve the situation. Now more than ever, we must collaborate rather than ostracize.

Emelia 👸🏻

@necedema you can see it by viewing the post edit history if you want.

Roni Laukkarinen

@dave @thisismissem @Gargron @renchap It's more like behaving like an ass. I agree, tech bros can be like that. But I'd very much like to avoid the terminology in the open source world as much as possible. There's still hope in this case.

Emelia 👸🏻

@rolle @dave @Gargron @renchap please do see the updated original post before continuing this conversation.

Screamin' Jay Grant 🏳️‍⚧️

@jcolomb why are you asking a female contributor to do the glue work here? Are you aware that many female contributors in floss are assigned glue work as a way to undervalue their work?

@renchap @wild1145 @thisismissem

Emelia 👸🏻

@mxjaygrant @jcolomb @renchap @wild1145 I don't believe that anyone was asking me to do anything here. I think that was directed at the mastodon team.

Kiloku

@thisismissem @MastodonEngineering this edit reads like @Gargron coerced you to retract your words somehow, which would be not surprising at all.

justsoup

@thisismissem @MastodonEngineering Are you sure that you are alright? You seemed really upset in the original post and supported it with a lot of evidence. This sudden edit and turn-around is really worrying and just makes the Mastodon team look worse. You could have left the original post and made a comment to it to show how there was an issue at first but it got resolved. Now it just looks like you were forced to change the post.

benx

@thisismissem @MastodonEngineering

As a somewhat baby developer myself, I found it hard to figure out how to get involved with the development process.

When making a PR to Mastodon a while back, I was really keen to have an IRC / Slack / @matrix channel that I could join to ask questions about the development plan before diving into writing code.

You think something like that would help?

I did get a response to my PR eventually but by that time the code needed to be updated, to work with the latest main branch, and I no longer had time to update it myself.

Emelia 👸🏻

@Kiloku Nope, this is entirely me reflecting on the situation and wanting to shift to a more positive energy.

I can say something in anger, then take time to reflect, before then revising my statement to reflect how I like to work. Public call outs usually aren't my style if I can avoid them.

I was incredibly tired yesterday that contributed to my very emotional response, and had other contributing factors.

@MastodonEngineering @Gargron

Emelia 👸🏻

@justsoup @MastodonEngineering I wanted to edit the original post, since that's what had gone viral, and I think it's important for everyone who boosted it to see that I've reflected and adjusted my position.

This was a decision I made myself, and then told the Mastodon team about it.

Emelia 👸🏻

@benx @MastodonEngineering @matrix that'd be the discord, that's where conversations can take place.

Yes, you do need to be a supporter of the project to be in the space, but it's $12 a year to participate there.

benx

@thisismissem @MastodonEngineering
Ah, good to know something like that exists, for future notice.

justsoup

@thisismissem @MastodonEngineering The decision to edit the whole post still rubs me wrong, but I am glad that it was your decision. Hopefully this whole thing gets figured out and you can get back to doing your amazing work!

Emelia 👸🏻

@justsoup @MastodonEngineering it was really down to a new post wouldn't be seen by all the people the previous post had. By edited, everyone received a notification that I'd edited something that they'd boosted.

I do also have a separate post up: https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/113472150241957758

Emelia 👸🏻

@justsoup @MastodonEngineering and the original post is not gone, everyone can still see it in the edit history.

benx

@thisismissem @MastodonEngineering
Are any of the main devs active on the discord though? And/or is there a community manager keeping tabs on it and liasing with the main devs?

Emelia 👸🏻

@benx @MastodonEngineering all of them are on discord, and there's also @andypiper who does a bunch of community work.

jonny (good kind)

@thisismissem
appreciate u very much in this space, and your efforts are v much noticed and welcomed at least by me, who is the only person I can speak for

Emelia 👸🏻

@jonny thanks, and also glad to have you in the space & contributing too!