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!

  • The Nexus of Privacy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
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    8 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.