ttmrichter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Mastodon” is a program. It has absolutely no agency whatsoever, and without agency there is no responsibility.
So now you’re probably really saying “Mastodon’s developers” have responsibility.
Good. Pay them. Writing software is a huge job, and getting your software suddenly stress-tested by millions of users abandoning a sinking ship is a good way to get overloaded and even burned out. So you think they have responsibility for something? Help them get it done. Beginning with paying their foundation so that they can hire more people to do it.
Coming in and writing a huge rambling set of demands is not how you’re going to get anything changed.
masimatutu@nerdica.net 11 months ago
Yes, donating helps them develop the project, which is great and I encourage everyone who can to do so, but it doesn't change the direction of the development. Mastodon is ultimately people powered, making spreading sentiments a reasonable way to change this, if you're not going to develop the project yourself.
ttmrichter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Making statements is as much bullshit as “raising awareness”. If you don’t have skin in the game–as a developer, as a funder, as part of governance–your bleatings are as valuable as the bleatings of anybody else commenting without cost.
Get involved. Get skin in the game. Participate in the process of making Mastodon. Hell, if you absolutely must bleat without working, at least bleat in the right place: the actual project’s communications channels!
Bleating in Lemmy that Mastodon must change is just performance art.
masimatutu@nerdica.net 11 months ago
masimatutu@nerdica.net 11 months ago
I'd like to add that the developers' communication channels is a very inappropriate place to complain for someone who is uninvolved with the project.
(And you can tell that this is primarily directed at Mastodonians because the title is also the first line, because of the seemingly excessive explanation of how this place works and because of the hashtags and the mentions in the end of the post. Also, why would I specifically write to fedi tips if this was just a Lemmy post?)
ttmrichter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Reaching Mastodon” is still just gum-flapping. Reach Mastodon developers. Use their issue tracker. Address them directly. All you’re doing here is beating a pot with a ladle while parading around the house.