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Aral Balkan

2 Jahre her • •

Aral Balkan
2 Jahre her • •

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*

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Alexander Bochmann

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Yeah, asking for him to resign is going to stop the project dead. No one else has the know-how or motivation to drive it at large. Even the two well-known forks have minimal developer resources.

It's still not wrong to ask him to consider uses that are different from those of mastodon.social, and to lobby for features that may not fit his vision for future development of the software.

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Meisam 🇪🇺:manjaro:

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

I assume the monthly paychecks they are sending is why they feel entitled to ask for Eugen's resignation.

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Gert V 🇵🇸

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

Most of us develop a resistance against the widespread f**king arrogance.

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OberstKrueger

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

If someone really doesn’t like his work, they could work on a whole new project that interacts fine with ActivityPub. It’s not like we don’t already have a few of those.

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Claudius (legacy account)

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

I wonder if things like these are attempts to stifle progress. I think we're pretty susceptible to trolls and sabotage in that regard.

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spla :senyera: :vim:

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

exactly, fork it and good luck but I'm pretty sure nobody will achieve what Mastodon did.

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No Time To Play

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

Mastodon already has several forks. That open letter mentions one. This account is hosted on another. It's not the same thing. Gargron is the founder of Mastodon. He's the face of the project. And the project isn't just a piece of software anymore, it's all our communities. Which are now at risk.

Tech is never "just tech". You should know better than most people. I thought you did.

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Aral Balkan

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Right, tech is never “just tech”, it’s political. Fully agreed. So remind me where it says you have the right to make someone else stop working on something they’re building?

If the sternly-worded letter doesn’t work, what next? Should we shackle his hands to make sure he can’t type? Do you also take a kid’s Legos away if you don’t like what they’re building? Heck, even that isn’t a good analogy because the kid probably didn’t mold and craft the Legos himself.

*still smh*

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dor

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I haven’t read the letter, but a call for resignation is most definitely an act for the politics of the thing rather than the code. As such it feels disingenuous to me to simply insist someone fork the code. What are all the non coding contributors to do? Do they not get a say in the culture of mastodon just because their contribution area doesn’t have the mechanisms necessary to fork?

Is it a silly demand for an open source project? A bit. But that doesn’t make the people making the demand silly or drug users/addicts. For many people Mastodon is their first or only experience of the fediverse and/or open-source.

How do we build a community around the fediverse such that we can collectively push for changes when and where they are necessary? Does it produce a vibrant and healthy community if the only or main way to address leadership we don’t agree with is to build our own camp/software? Seems like a lot of repetition of effort to me.

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donut :alpine: :xfce: :clj:

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

This is where I draw the line.

Do I think it makes sense to design it like he did? No.

Do I care at all what happens to .social depending on how iOS app is designed? No, not my instance not my problem.

BUT

He’s the developer and he has the reigns.

If there’s a LLC or some other business model/money involved, get over it. Everyone needs to eat and if he’s developing this instead of a normal job AND keeping it open source.. that’s awesome. More power to him for that. I respect that.

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Christopher M0YNG

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

for me I think it would be good to challenge and propose changes to the management structure of the software.

It's used by more than his two big instances, but I don't feel like admins like myself get any say in the direction of the software without chipping in code (and running an instance takes most of the time I might have to contribute even if it was incorporated) maybe a board or working group is needed?

But asking him to stop doing EVERYTHING seems pointless

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Georg

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

Well, thats not exactly true. There more contributors and quite some public funding. Its not his project, its ours. But yes, a fork is needed, since this project is going nowhere useful anymore.

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Aral Balkan

Als Antwort auf Georg • 2 Jahre her • •

Cool, if it’s your project, please keep building it and thank you for your contributions.

You cannot – and neither should you be able to – stop anyone else working on it (or a fork of it).

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Georg

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

I was in no way implying this. I am just questioning your definition of ownership here, which is just wrong and capitalistic and quite the opposite of what open source is about.

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Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

a common story, as far as I noticed. A popular project grows "community leaders" who, while contributing pretty much nothing, start treating the founder as an oppressing dictator and campaign against him (it's usually "him"). "We don't need a BDFL" and all that stuff.

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Aral Balkan

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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.

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Jim

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

Eugen has courted these people for ages. He doesn't deserve it, but he should not be surprised.

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Badly-optimised primate

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

I'm really out of the loop - what's the reason people want him gone?

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virus.media

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

Link please sir

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elrido

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I think it's this https://seedy.xyz/posts/0005-open-letter/ (was wondering myself what this discussion was about)

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Aral Balkan

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Yep

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Florian Jensen

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

Any link on this? Is this all happening because of the iOS app not having a local timeline?
If so, who's forcing users to use that app? There's countless other clients for it if they'd like that feature.

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Guerin

Als Antwort auf Florian Jensen • 2 Jahre her • •

it’s more political : i mean, the official app removes core features that the creator of the software doesn’t like anymore… it’s kind of bad omens for those who likes those features. The fear that local and federated timelines might not be there to stay is legitimate.

I don’t think it’ll go that far, but i’m convinced that Gargron has a biased pov on his software, based on his experience on one of the biggest instances. And he already showed that he wasn’t always a good listener…

TBH i’m not even using mastodon so i’m kinda not the best suited to talk about that. Or am i exactly for this reason ?

Like i said elsewhere, i’m pretty sure we could find a solution that suits both people using local timeline for thematic / community purposes, and people who think those are useless, trashy or overwhelming : groups.

Cross-instances federated thematic groups that you could join from any instance.

They’d even be better than local timelines even fo... mehr anzeigen

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Florian Jensen

Als Antwort auf Guerin • 2 Jahre her • •

but in that case, it's not his responsibility to deliver these features. Instead, if there's a big enough group of people that feel that way, they should fork the project.

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Guerin

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since he doesn’t seem to like those timelines but a large part of his users do i think’s it’s not absurd to ask for him to deliver. He’s the one wanting mastodon to rise and gain more users. Yet he doesn’t really listen to his userbase.

Not all folks here are developers, we can’t all just fork. And maintain the new software. He has the skills, the funds, and the human ressources.

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Guerin

Als Antwort auf Guerin • 2 Jahre her • •

oh and btw i like how he says that public timelines are features for techy people and yet forgets that “decentralized-platform” (which is his main argument for mastodon) also is a feature for techy people

But that’s another topic

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Aral Balkan

Als Antwort auf Guerin • 2 Jahre her • •

I don’t have a problem with any of what you’ve articulated. However, raising the points you just did a world and a half removed from saying that someone who has built something should stop working on it because you don’t like how he’s building it. Which is what the open letter I read was saying.

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Aroop Roelofs :verified:

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

I don't feel like he has to *resign* but should seriously change his attitude...

I've seen so much times of him "I don't like this feature, it won't be there", even if it doesn't cost him much effort to add beyond a review.
Do we *really* have to make 1337666 forks just because 1 guy doesn't want a particular feature?

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Aral Balkan

Als Antwort auf Aroop Roelofs :verified: • 2 Jahre her • •

What’s the alternative? You whip him until he implements it?

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Aroop Roelofs :verified:

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

Him not being an asshat? :^)
Seriously... it takes a few moments of his time to review a PR and press "merge".

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Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🧠 🕹

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

As soon as you have users who depend on you, it's no longer "your project" alone. Continuing to ignore them and do user-hostile things makes him a tyrant.

If you turn Better into an ad farm, people aren't going to just say "oh well that's Aral's right" and keep using it.

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Aral Balkan

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And no one is forcing anyone to use anything.

It’s a huge leap from “you can’t force anyone to use what you make” (agreed, entirely) to “stop working on your app because I said so” (which is what the open letter demands).

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Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🧠 🕹

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

People are very invested in Mastodon already. The only alternative is a lot of effort to move to new software with risks.

So asking him to stop being a tyrant is the first "do less harm" step.

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Matthew Skala

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

It worked when they tried it with the Free Software Foundation.

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Aral Balkan

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Not the same thing at all.

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retroartdt

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

can i ask why do you see such a profound difference pertaining to the point you made?

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Corconegre :estelada:

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

i did not read the open letter as i did not find it, but in general terms:
- Asking politely to the developer of a software for a feature, with data to back up your choices= GOOD
- If no attention is paid you can always fork. Seems to be a lot of people interested (worse projects have been forked)
- Asking a developer to stop the project or give it away because you don't like a feature= BAD
- This is typical troll attitude
- No offense intended
- I do love local timeline

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Raül

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

@spla Let me be evil just for a little. How many of those haters are using android

? How ever, this is a nonsense, they can fork and spin once again their hamster wheel. If someone thinks they can do it better, stop thinking and amuse us. Otherwise is just an opinion. The squall will pass. This turpitude can not disturbe the mettlesome of the creator.

@spla :senyera: :vim:

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welt

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

are you talking about the one at the seed site or whatever its called?

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Aral Balkan

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Yeah

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welt

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan • 2 Jahre her • •

It's literally just an open letter explaining why Eugen should step down. You can't fork a community and there's no way to get people off of the instances he runs. I disagree with the letter in many respects but it's also not unfair or anything. Aside from bringing up sponsors, that's a nitpick.

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welt

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its literally just "eugen should step down and here's why". I don't get why people have a problem with this.

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Aral Balkan

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You’re telling someone who built something that he should stop working on it. What exactly gives you the right to do so?

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Aral Balkan

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That’s it in a nutshell :) *smh*

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