This will take place ~24 hours from now. Feel free to post and upvote questions beforehand in this post, as it will turn into the AMA tomorrow.

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This is a chance for any users, admins, or developers to ask anything they’d like to myself, @nutomic@lemmy.ml , SleeplessOne , or @phiresky@lemmy.world about Lemmy, its future, and wider issues about the social media landscape today.

    • sab@kbin.social
      9·
      11 months ago

      I think there’s a risk of lacking a coherent direction if decision-making is outsourced too much to the community. Furthermore, core developers might lose ownership of the project and then lose interest. As long as it’s open source, I’m pretty happy to have the core maintainers develop projects according to their own vision, and the community fork it should this vision differ too much from their own. :)

      • Blaze@discuss.onlineEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        the community fork it should this vision differ too much from their own. :)

        Definitely :)

      • Ademir@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        As long as it’s open source, I’m pretty happy to have the core maintainers develop projects according to their own vision

        The problem is, after we as users helped Mastodon to grow strong the dev thinks it is better to do stuff outside of the standards so nothing works for other fediverse platforms. He has too much power and most people are mindless.

    • spaduf@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      While I agree with the content of that article I don’t know if we should give up on Eugen just yet. The Mastodon team has not disclosed what their plan is regarding the groups rework currently on the mastodon roadmap. There is an old proposal here, but I think we have good reason to believe that implementation will be revisited. To that end, it is very important to advocate for the adoption of FEP-1b12 which is the standard that Lemmy uses.

      It may also be a good idea to advocate for the adoption of FEP-d36d both here and on lemmy. This is a standard for group-to-group following. Effectively allowing communities to subscribe to other communities.

      Here’s a slightly older but fairly comprehensive write-up of the situation: https://blog.erlend.sh/group-convergence

    • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Mastodon’s main dev isn’t really open. Have a look at the “Ego” part of this article

      That article was over 5 years ago now. I would expect that there has been massive change now that Mastodon is way more popular, and the project is way more involved. Also, blocks and mutes do work now.

      • sab@kbin.social
        1·
        11 months ago

        Also something to be said about how a thing or two has happened in the last five years. Whatever Mastodon is doing seems to be working for a large number of users.

        It’s not for everyone, and that’s fine. The freedom of choice is why we’re in the fediverse in the first place. But the fact is that quite a few people want what Madison is offering. :)