this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2026
294 points (99.0% liked)
Fediverse
42119 readers
27 users here now
A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, Mbin, etc).
If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!
Rules
- Posts must be on topic.
- Be respectful of others.
- Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
- Follow the general Lemmy.world rules.
Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration)
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
There's a "local" feed on Mastodon, too, but it's not very well signposted.
Gargron (the Masto lead dev)'s been trying to kill it because he doesn't want us to have nice things.
-- Frost
Wow was that really it?
My understanding is he's the Potterying of the Fediverse. Trying to enshittify things in advance and somesuch, presumably to launch some sort of IPO? Heard a lot of drama re stuff like quote posts, or the suppression of "toot".
Yeah, that sounds about right. I doubt there's any sort of IPO involved, and I don't think he's malicious, he just looks at the big tech stuff and goes "I want Mastodon to be like that!" without really giving much thought to why it's not.
"he doesn't want us to have nice things" was kinda facetious, a "this is why we can't have nice things" type thing. :3
-- Frost