Fork it! It's time for a Mastodon hard fork (privacy.thenexus.today)

submitted 5 months ago by pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Fork it! It's time for a Mastodon hard fork

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[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

Even ignoring the ideological reasons to not want facebook integration: There are only so many hours in the day and so many dollars in the donation bucket. If an open source project is dedicating a disproportionate percentage of that on a feature that a significant part of the community actively do not want: That is exactly WHY you fork a project.

And once we consider the ideological and safety related reasons to not want facebook and giant corporate interests involved?

I have a lot of issue with the people who decide the answer is harassment and hate. But if enough development and organizational energy want to fork this? Fuckin' A.

[-] capital@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

What does a hard fork get this author that blocking meta’s domains from their account not get them?

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

The Facebook scare is absolute ridiculous. Threads integration can mainstream the fediverse. Basically everyone on Mastodon doesn't want anything to do with Meta, There's no way Threads would suck up a good enough amount of Mastodon's target audience for an extinguish to do enough damage.