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danilo

@danilo@hachyderm.io

Product design and engineering, freelance DX, and a thirst for a future worth living in.

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I don't want to have a fight on the internet.

I know that's rich, coming from me, if you have even a little backstory—

such backstory being I parlayed a strange hobby beefing with rich guys into a job at a unicorn as the last cycle heated up

—but I'm almost 40 years old, man.

I don't have the energy to carry all this beef in my heart. I survived the absolute rollercoaster terror of 2020.

I want a nice time talking to reasonable people about interesting things. That is my social desire.

danilo OP ,
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And Mastodon has a serious social illness that cannot be ignored.

Just a terrible apathy for collaboration. A penchant for sealioning at best, straight up default hostility at worst

So I'm going on record right now: I believe this problem will be Mastodon's dead end.

It suffocates culture. You know my deepest conviction is that technology is not enough.

danilo OP ,
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It's a crime because Mastodon is a beautiful thing.

A miracle, some ways, BOTH technological and social. The successful federation, the macro-moderation it enables, the thriving volume of instances.

The fact that as a truly evil plutocrat bought a commons and then began deplatforming its journalists, Mastodon could provide a truly workable alternative.

Extraordinary.

BUT: Mastodon is its own worst enemy.

Its querulous, joyless norms will set a ceiling on its impact.

Maybe they can fix it?

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