SunCat 🦋💛🐱☀️🐉 @SunCat@octodon.social

As a joke, a few days ago I had asked @noelle: "do you want to fork off together?"

And I guess that's where #ForkOffTogether kinda stems from.

We've received an overwhelming response to the survey, both good and bad, but mostly good.

We have over 80 people who've said that they want to join, and 64 names to reach out to.

I think we're ready to start.

@jasondclinton @Nerdcoresteve @Gargron @MeimuHakurei

Right. Cause I should have to ask my friends to change "buses", and find someone capable of building the bus, and driving the bus, and maintaining the bus, because the original bus won't respect the riders. Yeah, that sure makes sense.

"I left Mastodon yesterday"

In fine Mastodon storming-off tradition, I've written a flipping long Medium post.

https://medium.com/@cassolotl/i-left-mastodon-yesterday-4c5796b0f548

#mastodon #meta #ForkOff #ForkOffTogether

open invitation, not just to #ForkOff/#ForkOffTogether folks (but especially to them), that if you're interested in becoming a Mastodev but maybe don't have much programming experience or don't know how to use rails or anything like that, feel free to reach out and I'll do what i can to get you started and teach you the system

oh, and let's not forget one of the biggest problems: leadership.

we can't have a single person at the head of everything. we need a diverse group of equally powerful contributors all working together and working with the community to get things done.

as well as a way for the community at large to hold them accountable and directly participate in decisions

the success of the fork should take into consideration every large and small complaint possible that anyone has had with mastodon.

things like correcting the inherent whiteness of mastodon, expanding accessibility features, centering every marginalised group over the status quo, and especially making the platform accessible to non-programmers for both contribution and deployment

some bridges were burned, some new ones were made. honestly i think this is overall a positive thing since now there's a chance something good could come of it.

there's also a chance it could suffer from similar problems that brought the current community to the position its been in for the last couple days. who knows.

i guess the important thing is to consistently learn and adapt when things go wrong

this whole ordeal is quite exhausting and there are a lot of folks who are rolling their eyes, wishing this would all go away and everything could go back to normal, etc

unfortunately this is how change works. things come to a boiling point and tensions explode into vitriol which eventually pushes people into making snap decisions that for better or for worse, force them to walk a different path

Nobody is perfect. Everyone has limited capacity and skillsets. It doesn't matter who it is. If you put everything on one person then they will inevitably not be able to do it all adequately. If you give one person all the decision making power, they will inevitably make bad decisions. If #ForkOffTogether is really able to eclipse mainline #mastodev I'd be very happy. I hope that whatever fork forms considers perhaps a #coop (co-op) model. Or just generally distributing power

#mastodev is way better than it used to be but a lot of the stuff you take for granted and assume any project would have is stuff that volunteers had to push for. The conversation on governance isn't new. The call for some sort of oversight committee or board of directors or anything to make it not just gargron deciding and running every little thing himself has been going since January 2017, only 2 months after Mastodon as we know it really began... It's been an ongoing struggle