My vision for Mastodon is a different direction than all previous attempts at social media, by focussing on community ownership, Trust & Safety features, slow user & server growth, and financial sustainability - for the non-profit project, the server administrators, the moderators, and creators in the Fediverse. I’m thrilled to have @haubles as Community Director and @renchap as Technical Director on my side in making this vision a reality.
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Discussion
@mellifluousbox @haubles @renchap
"slow user & server growth" strikes me as easier to say than to do.
E.g. will you discourage open registration?
Many here still want to be Twitter Jr. and crave growth.
Best of luck, we are depending on you.
@mellifluousbox @haubles @renchap Looking forward to where you will steer this awesome project!
@mellifluousbox @haubles @renchap Congrats and all the best to the team!
My personal heroes and projects I admire are @signalapp @Mer__edith @torproject @gnome @thunderbird @ryanleesipes . I’d much rather have Mastodon be inspired by the contributions of these people and projects to the FOSS and non-profit technology world than trying to rebuild early Twitter.
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I have huge respect for everyone contributing to the Fediverse: the larger-than-life architects like @cwebber @evan (without whom we would literally all not be here), implementers like @dansup bringing photo & video to it, new projects like @newsmast @michael @FreddieJ @saskia @bonfire @ivan @mayel orgs like @Flipboard @mike @john @ghost @activitypub.blog @pfefferle bringing the media over to the Fediverse, and @rileytestut @altstore for trying out completely new things.
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@mellifluousbox @cwebber @evan @newsmast @michael @FreddieJ @bonfire @ivan @mayel @Flipboard @mike @john @ghost @activitypub.blog @pfefferle @rileytestut @altstore The respect is mutual ❤️
Thank you for mentioning me, it really means a lot.
I joined Mastodon in 2016 and wouldn't have started @pixelfed if it wasn't for the interest and support I found on Mastodon back in 2018.
I owe so much to you guys, and am forever your #1 fan.
Let's continue building the future together 🚀
Can I make a note of how pretty much all the people you seem to want to work with and posit as heroes are white, and that one of them is notorious for lashing out doing racist and transphobic abuse? There is a lot of people here doing anti racist work and working on improving moderation and they don't even seem to be showing up on your radar. You have some work to do.
@GLaDTheresCake Thanks for the feedback!
@mellifluousbox I can’t believe you’re still bringing Threads in your thanks. (Also that’s a lot of CEOs there.)
@mellifluousbox Not to forget @mczachurski and @vernissage as it comes to photos! No permanent "coming soon" but a steady and reasonable developement with a great outcome so far! ☺️☝🏻
Many of us would also not be here if it weren’t for patient and forward thinking people in media and civil society like @Sarahp @laurenshof @leonido @janboehm @markus_netzpolitik @samvie @Sascha @melaniebartos
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Thanks to amazing people like
@jaz @iftas @swf @mallory @bjoernsta @j12t we can see through topics larger than us related to policy, regulation, protocol development as well as how to deal with spam attacks, how to design a safer product for everyone, and how to deal with occasional interpersonal conflicts in our beautiful part of the internet.
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