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It's time for a hard fork of Mastodon (DRAFT) (privacy.thenexus.today)

submitted 5 months ago by thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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This is a work in progress, so feedback very welcome! And, if please check out the Mastodon poll about interest in a fork

Contents:

Intro
There's a lot of low-hanging fruit
Safety is an especially good area to focus on
It's not as easy as it sounds ...
But it's not like it defies the laws of physics!
What about funding?
Make sure there are funded leadership and project roles for Black, Indigenous, Muslim, trans, queer, and disabled people as well as others who have been marginalized in Mastodon's development history
Let a thousand forks bloom!
Clever conclusion! tbd

As the tbd in that last bullet implies, the conclusion isn't written yet. Like I said it really is a work in progress!

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[–] thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago

Mutuals-only posts would be useful, and have been requested since 2018 if not earlier. As @ShittyKopper points out there are challenges; Claire's 2020 comment https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/7135#issuecomment-636767048 discusses the issues in more detail. Then again some other fediverse software has them already ... and Claire's comparison to follower-only posts highlights that it could be done, it's just not a priority. So this is another good example of something that's not likely to get addressed with today's structure, and potentially could be a fork with different priorities -- if resources are avaialble, which is of course a big if.