I’ve been ‘inhabiting’ mastodon.social since about the beginning. I’ve often been frustrated by the limitations imposed by 500 characters of text.

It’s just not enough to really express a literate view without splitting up a post among several posts.

Clearly, there are ways to circumvent the limitation, which illuminates it as a futile attempt to control the expression of others.

I know that was never the intention of Mastodon developers. I will reserve judgement as concerns Twitter.

Anyway, since the beginning of the ‘great exodus’ of mastodon.social users to their own community instances, I’ve been trying to sort out where I ‘belong’.

Well, actually it just might be here :)

  • wiki_me
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    3 years ago

    There are a million ways they can directly support themselves in developing mastodon without practically taking a segment of their user base hostage for the FOSS code.

    Then i suggest you open an issue on github, you might find out that funding FOSS for a social media platform is not as easy as you think it is (especially if you don’t want to sacrifice some income by giving up on good paying jobs).