Honestly, it kind of makes my blood boil when I try to talk about how a platform ought to think about implementing a given feature that would be good for the fediverse, and all I get is an apathetic shrug and get told "just do it this other way because our platform will never support that".
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@sean To be fair even if your idea is a great idea, ideas dont mean much. Submit a patch or if the patch wont be accepted fork the project. Thats the beauty of open source. Don't get mad, fix it.
@freemo I get it, but it really sucks if the upstream stewards want no part of it. I've seen first-hand accounts of people forking fediverse projects to add amazing features, and some of them die on the vine because the point of divergence causes a lot of extra work to pull in upstream changes, and then upstream shows no interest in adopting the changes anyway.
It's doable in open source, and there are success stories, but it's incredibly difficult without momentum.
It's doable in open source, and there are success stories, but it's incredibly difficult without momentum.
