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I just realized that I don't need to argue with y'all about:
* Starter packs
* Composable moderation
* Quote tweets
* Paying trust & safety engineers for their labor
* Funding stuff without VC or begging for donations
* If UX is possible without VC money

I don't need to argue with y'all about any of this. I'm not asking for your permission or your help. I'm telling you what's going to happen.

Mastodon is moving in the right direction, just slowly. It could be faster with funding + focus.

1/N

I said what I said about Mastodon moving too slowly to matter for the US midterms, so BlueSky being our best bet.

I said what I said about me being wrong about thinking that Mastodon would get it together by now.

I said what I said about BlueSky making it okay that Mastodon moves slower, and it not necessarily being over in the long run. We're watching people leave Twitter at a rate of 1 million a day. If BlueSky does go bad, and a better option is available, I anticipate a similar exit.

2/N

Here's my list of "statements that I want to be true" for 2025.

* Mastodon will have Starter packs
* Mastodon will have Composable moderation
* Mastodon will have Quote tweets
* More people will be paid to work full-time on Fediverse trust & safety in 2025, than in the history of the Fediverse up until this point
* Mastodon will be better funded in 2025 than any year prior, without accepting any VC money
* More people will work full time on Fediverse UX than any year prior

Bet against me.

3/N

Andres Salomon

@mekkaokereke Here's what I'd like to be true in 2025.

* Mastodon has a real ActivityPub competitor (GoToSocial paired with Phanpy?) that uses fewer resources, is easier to maintain, gets features implemented much faster, promotes safety and usability, and actually adds genuine innovations that we haven't even considered yet.

Phanpy is already there on the client side, but we need the server piece.

Nov 18, 2024, 21:48 · · · Phanpy · 9 · 22

THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS. am serious, how much will it take to fork and make this happen? i would make it my autistic obsession to raise the money and make it happen.

one thing am bothered about is that i haven't been able to run a localhost so i can play with it. the way i understood the requirements, that's impossible. maybe am missing something.

but that in itself is an issue with this software; which i want to use because of this deck am so used to using.

@Andres4NY @mekkaokereke

Hi from GoToSocial via phanpy! Not sure about what the barriers are for localhost, their bare metal installation instructions (which is what I used on a droplet) seem like they should work there https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/getting_started/installation/metal/ Happy to ask about it in their chat room if it's useful.

@blogdiva @Andres4NY @mekkaokereke

docs.gotosocial.orgBare metal - GoToSocial DocumentationNone

@Andres4NY @mekkaokereke cc @cheeaun: would you be open to adding support into Phanpy for new features like starter packs, limiting replies, and composable moderation, if pioneered by a server app other than Mastodon?

@graue @Andres4NY @mekkaokereke despite being a Mastodon-first client, Phanpy now already supports bits of little features from other servers. Most of them are external contributions as I don't have the capacity to keep up and test them.

Back to topic; I agree that everything needs better funding. Even AP competitors also need the same thing.

@cheeaun just wanted to say how impressed I am with what you've done with Phanpy! It's a great example of what @mekkaokereke said in the first post in the thread about how great UX is possible without VC money. I really hope that you're getting the compensation (in whatever form you're looking for) that you deserve -- and if not yet, I hope that happens in 2025!

@Andres4NY
I use gotosocial and it's great. I worry about the scalability of plain old Mastodon, it seems kind of bloated and complicated to setup. GTS was easy.
@mekkaokereke

@beachcomber @mekkaokereke I tried it 2 years ago, but that was very early alpha. When I have some more free time, now that it's in beta I plan to give it another try.

@Andres4NY @mekkaokereke I personally prefer Elk over Phanpy, but for the rest I totally agree with you.