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Kshitij Aggarwal

@billjings when I first came to mastodon, I planned to contribute to the official mastodon app on hope to fix some issues I saw. But when I reached the GitHub page and saw the anti kotlin manifesto (of sorts) I immediately backed away and even uninstalled the official app and hopped onto a more modern app maintained by people who actually care about the more important things

18 April at 20:03 | Wall-to-wall | Open on androiddev.social
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Miles :v_bi:

@funkyidol @billjings this is all so wild to me because just a couple days ago I was like "hmm today I think I'll go fix+add some translations in the official Mastodon app" and then I was immediately so put off by everything I saw

tech.lgbt/@mileskrell/11227895

(I'm using that app right now, which alternative do you recommend?)

18 April at 23:54 | Open on tech.lgbt
Daniele
Miles :v_bi:

@fourlastor @funkyidol @billjings @pachli thank you for this suggestion! pachli.app/about is certainly aspirational. I spent a few hours reading everything about the reason for the fork; it makes sense. (side note: it was nice to read a disagreement where both sides are generally trying to stay respectful. I feel like I don't see enough of that in the world.)

Overall, Pachli seems pretty forward-looking in terms of governance. And Nik's contribution history makes me confident that Pachli won't stagnate at least in the short-term (he was the primary code contributor to Tusky within a month of first getting involved and then for another next 7 months until he left? wow.)

The app seems solid, and I've already seen a bunch of tiny bugs that are just itching for someone to fix them. I've been looking for an app to get involved with - maybe this is it 🙂

@fourlastor @funkyidol @billjings @pachli thank you for this suggestion! pachli.app/about is certainly aspirational. I spent a few hours reading everything about the reason for the fork; it makes sense. (side note: it was nice to read a disagreement where both sides are generally trying to stay respectful. I feel like I don't see enough of that in the world.)

19 April at 14:22 | Open on tech.lgbt
Kshitij Aggarwal
Miles :v_bi:

@funkyidol @billjings megalodon's dependency on the official app (e.g. for translations) gives me pause, but thank you for suggesting it! I do like that it has extra support for glitch-soc features since the instance I'm on is running glitch-soc. definitely gonna keep an eye on it!

19 April at 14:33 | Open on tech.lgbt
Christophe B. :android:

@funkyidol @billjings Same reaction for me. I'm contributing to Tusky now.

19 April at 7:39 | Open on androiddev.social
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