I disagree with the current CEO of Mastodon about his stance on mid-sized instances. We don't want to be run in isolation, we are part of the Fediverse. "Normal users just want the default", he can repeat that as many times as he wants, it doesn't make it true because of that.
Diversity is the DNA of the Fediverse and Mastodon is just one part of the whole. Thousands of people spend their time and money to make it successful. Anyone who dismisses that and single-handedly tries to market the Fediverse as a Mastodon brand and use "crowding out" techniques to prevent users from even being encouraged to choose an instance from a diversity will ultimately fail.
I am super disappointed with the direction Mastodon Corporation is taking. If there is not enough headwind here soon, then sooner or later it will lead to a schism.
@louis I think it's funny how the verbiage in the screenshot is barely intelligible, possibly because he was trying to get under a character limit, which just goes to show how stupid character limits are, and a good reason for people to use something other than #Mastodon
I don't *think* he's really taking a stance on mid-sized instances here, though. More a stance about what the average users wants.
Ha, well normally I would avoid making things personal, but the guy has often made comments that seemed pretty unimpressive to me, for example his reasoning surrounding certain Mastodon UI issues.
I just think he's a pretty unimpressive person
I might even say you may be giving him too much credit by saying he is going full startup when really he's just messing around without much of a larger plan at all.
@louis