@thisismissem Though it is also a bigger shame just how many PR's and issues are sat open on the Mastodon project effectively rotting because they haven't been reviewed or looked at or dealt with, but then I can see both sides of it, spend all your time reviewing PR's and you get no big picture stuff done, but if you never review any nobody's going to submit PR's. It seems like it's a balance and I think it's fair to say Mastodon hasn't got the balance right yet.

@thisismissem That's fair and the blog post explains it really well. I think I tend to default to a "More options and competition = good" and as you summarise in that post, in this case it might not be.

I think I and a lot of folks got quite spoilt with some fairly major upgrades landing back in Q4 2022 where there were fairly major changes to Mastodon's design and UX and I personally had hoped for a faster pace on development, but equally do know there is a lot going on to keep things going.

@thisismissem It might be worth considering if forking (Potentially with the longer term view to hard fork) is the right call especially if you've been able to secure funding to date (or are able to do so from the general contributions you receive). There's enough folks out here (I think anyway) that are certainly interested in a lot of the improvements you've worked on to date to be appreciative of future development effort I think.

Next question for the hive mind as you all combined have so much more knowledge than my current google foo.

I need to get a decent webcam, historically my default recommendation was a Logitech C920 and I've generally heard good things even more recently. Is there a better option out there or is this still where I should be looking for getting myself one?

@mookie I've enabled it on my instances mostly because it forces instances that do behave and don't try to bypass an instance block to genuinely get blocked / prevent access to posts. I think it also helps if a user blocks a remote server where the remote server will then be rejected further data on their account iirc but that might be wrong. There is a small performance hit with enabling it iirc but I've not noticed anything so bad it's worth disabling it.