Fork it! It's time for a Mastodon hard fork
> An opportunity to improve safety, the Mastodon ecosystem, and fediverse software development
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In Why a hard-fork of Mastodon isn’t the way, fediverse trust and safety expert (and longtime Mastodon contributor) Emelia Smith goes into more detail on the challenges that the current team needs to address – most of which potentially apply to a new fork as well.
"There’s general maintenance work, such as updating dependencies or moving off dependencies that are no longer supported; there’s security fixes and the back-porting of those fixes to older released versions; there’s product roadmap and project planning; there’s triaging and responding to hundreds or thousands of issues and pull requests; there’s providing help and assistance to users of the software who are encountering issues and bugs; there’s responding to press enquiries, applying for grants, working on legal & accounting to gain non-profit status, etc. There’s also documenting the project, which is a huge effort, with far too few people contributing (instead many are preferring to write their own blog posts about their experiences, rather than improving the documentation for everyone)."
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Similarly, Smith notes that Mastodon arguably wasn't ever designed for single-user instances. As smallpatatas notes in The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse
"The cost of managed hosting even for a single-user instance is way too expensive for most of the world. Here's Marco Rogers' experience. $19 is a lot of money if you live in a low-income country."
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- https://privacy.thenexus.today/mastodon-hard-fork/
- http://archive.today/6iFwJ
#article #read #Fediverse #Mastodon
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