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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 01-Aug-2021 20:41:14 CEST Aral Balkan

   Just read a post asking Eugen to resign from developing Mastodon and I really have to ask: what are you folks smoking?

   It’s his project. It’s open source. Fork it if you want to. But what kind of mind-blowing sense of entitlement drives you to think you can tell someone they should stop working on something they’ve built?

   *smh*

   • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 and Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 repeated this.
   • antiphasis (antiphasis@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Sunday, 01-Aug-2021 20:42:38 CEST antiphasis

     in reply to

     @aral What they're smoking? Nothing good!

     Also funny (not really) that they're all thinking the local timeline will be gone soon - because Eugen decided not to implement it in one - read his - iOS-App for Mastodon.

     Maybe it's COVID and the lockdowns, maybe it's anything else - I'm sick of those batshit crazy (over)reactions.

   • Iván Ávalos 🇲🇽 (avalos@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Aug-2021 20:42:40 CEST Iván Ávalos 🇲🇽

     in reply to

     @aral Well, I agree. But I also think he should listen the giant community he created. A bit more of democracy wouldn't hurt.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 01-Aug-2021 20:43:23 CEST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • dublinux

     @dublinux Right, it’s not practical for most people to fork a project. Correct.

     It is also absolutely ludicrous to tell someone what they can and what they cannot work on.

   • dublinux@mastodon.technology's status on Sunday, 01-Aug-2021 20:43:26 CEST dublinux

     in reply to

     @aral

     'Fork it if you want.'

     I'm sure you are familiar with the retort: 'That's not practical for most people'.

     And that is very true for most people on Mastodon. Even the tiny percentage who would have sufficient skills to do so would mostly not be in a financial position to maintain a fork.Gargron can run his project any way he likes but he can't control the reactions to his unilateral decisions.

     As someone said there are valid criticisms in the letter.The Eunomia issue hasn't been fully discussed.

     Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 repeated this.