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Eugen Rochko

I started working on Mastodon when I was 23, and now I'm 30

101 comments
Thor

@Gargron congrats on the great work. And thank you for your vision of a open web.

GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺

@Gargron You'll be a boomer before you know it. 😅 I've had a Mastodon account since 2016, that too.

GM Raphi

@Gargron You can say you did actually improve the world of many. While no end might be in sight, how far Mastodon has come is truly impressive. Thank you.

Ryan Rampersad

@Gargron happy birthday! I turned 30 a few months ago, it's pretty good so far

Kim Jones

@Gargron happy birthday! Thank you for all your hard work!

Arrakis_Surfer :antiverified:

@Gargron call me when you have 10 years of experience and we might consider you for this role....

Alexander Shendi

@Gargron

Verspäteten, aber herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag!

#HappyBirthday

Lien Rag

@Gargron

While if you had worked on a simpler project, you'd be 24 today...

Carsten Werner

@Gargron Happy birthday and all the best. Thank you for all your work and your vision to make social media a better place.

oshy

@Gargron Time passes so fast..
It's hard to believe I begun using Mastodon 6 years ago

nEo

@Gargron Happy birthday man. Great job and achievement creating this great space.

Simon Forgues

@Gargron Congrats. Elon own and worked with Twitter since a couple of months and I don't know if he will for a year. 😆

Earthling

@Gargron

Eugen, you are our hero!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Víctor

@Gargron Happy birthday! And thank you very much for Mastodon! 😘

Roman Zakharov

@Gargron its all pays off right now. just recently join your vision #mastodon is really cool

Ole V. S. Mortense 🇩🇰

@Gargron Was mastodon you're life's work or the project you're gonna regret spending all you're time on?

Dick Koopman 🇪🇺

@Gargron I heard of Mastodon in 1976. I joind Nov last year. I have a young mind.

Askan 🇪🇺

@Gargron
Ganz schön jung um soviel geleistet zu haben!

Khalid Alhokail - خالد الحقيل

@Gargron why did you choose this name? Just curious on the thought process

Finn

@Gargron Happy birthday! You have done a really great job 🙂

Kiran Babu

@Gargron happy birthday! Pretty amazing, what your work in the last 7 years has helped create

Mark Vanderbeeken

@Gargron I love the politeness of human interaction you created, and I am really grateful for that. Well, well done!

aprilfollies

@Gargron Happy birthday, and thank you for your hard work in building, maintaining, and improving a truly public social platform! Thank you also for being a central point around which other developers can help develop it and it’s clients!

bazbt3

@Gargron Happy birthday. What are you doing today, anything extra special to mark 30? Like a day off? :)

loucovey

@Gargron if Zuckerberg had spent half the time on Facebook you spent on Mastodon, we might not need Mastodon

Richard Bairwell (main)

@Gargron And are you asking for time-off for good behaviour? Happy b'day John/Gargron/Eugen ;)

Sascha Foerster :bonndigital:

@Gargron Ich freue mich (unbekannterweise) sehr für dich, dass es zu diesem Erfolg wurde! Happy Birthday! Und sei Dir sicher, da kommt noch viel mehr!

RealSolo

@Gargron you've done great and it's a serious accomplishment. A suggestion for next steps. Forget the quote replies. How about making it such so we have E2E in DM. I believe that should take a higher stand against quote replies anyday.

Yann 不停 Heurtaux

@Gargron Happy birthday, and many thanks for all the great work! 🫡🎉🥳

Kevin C. Tofel

@Gargron Have an awesome birthday and take a day (if not a week) of rest! 🎉

Mandarine0711

@Gargron Happy Birthday! And many thanks for creating this beautiful place 🤗

Monique

@Gargron Had you imagined, when you started working on it, that one day suddenly it would become huge over night?

Dean Amiridis

@Gargron You and the team have done a fantastic job with it. It’s finally getting the attention it deserves over other platforms.

Thomas Blechschmidt

@Gargron I hope you will still be working on it in 70 years.

Michael Stanclift

@Gargron really you don’t look a day over 70.

Jeff the Alien

@Gargron and now developers everywhere are coding apps to work with the Mastodon code you and the others wrote. Something to be proud of for sure.

JohnW

@Gargron Pretty cool that you took Mastodon live only a year after you started.

Rigo Wenning

@Gargron thank you for chosing to keep it open and to remain standards oriented. It is also your standpoint that changes the web today.

𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓲 🏍🌬️:mastodon:

A Very Happy Birthday Eugen Rochko @Gargron and thanks a lot for creating this!
👋😃🎂🎁🎊🎈🎉

BlueBee

@Gargron well it seems to have worked out for you. Congratulations.

Do yourself a favor and use that momentum to get the heck out of this meat grinder and live.

Thanks for giving us an avenue to free ourselves from modern social media. I hope it works.

Raven

@Gargron
Happy 30th Birthday, Eugen
🎂​🎉​🎁​🎈​🎆​🎈​🥳​✨​

Lou Reynolds

@Gargron thank you for creating this alternative platform and nurturing it’s evolution. I’m sure it must be gratifying and terrifying at the same time to see how it’s being adopted

YayForThat

@Gargron
Wow. Happy Birthday! You did a great Job. Thank you for creating this wonderful place. :blobcat:

Gary Nordell

@Gargron happy birthday 🎂 🎉and thank you 🙏

Jon Marnock :maybe_verified:

@Gargron It takes years to become an overnight success…

Lori

@Gargron Good well done thus far, looking forward to seeing the future of Mastodon!

mconnor

@Gargron I started working on Firefox when I was 23! It’s fun doing something you believe in.

Vincent 🌻

@Gargron Congratulations! Both with your birthday, as working on a worthy cause! 🎂

vktonik

@Gargron thank you for creating Mastodon. 👏🫶

Suzan 🇪🇺

@Gargron happy birthday Mr Mastodon! Lass dich feiern! 🤩

college_physics

@Gargron by many accounts (pun) those are seven years well spend :-). Many happy returns

Six Grandfathers Mountain

@Gargron @micahflee @w7voa @velshi @beschlossdc
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Happy 30th Mr. Rochko and thanks for The Mast.

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100rabh™

@Gargron happy birthday, I wonder if you have any thoughts on what you could have done with mastodon differently today vs 7 years ago

tsadilas

@Gargron you did something good for all of us 😍

Gustav H Meyer

Thank you very much Eugene for what you have built for all of us, and happy belated birthday!

Luis Carlos

@Gargron Birthday happy to be you, late although

chrisbeach

@Gargron how have your politics changed over that timeframe? I’m sure a lot of people would like to know, given how susceptible all platforms are to the politics of their owners? (Mastodon may be decentralised, but it still has an “owner” as far as I can tell)

Victoria is still wearing mask

@Gargron

Hope you had a wonderful day celebrating it yesterday! Happy belated coming to the earth ✨️😊

Joosep-Georg :mastodon: 🇪🇪

@Gargron Congratulations!

I started to work as long haul lorry driver when I was 36 and now I am 44 and still on it...

Before that I was also a programmer ;)

ichnos7

@Gargron@mastodon.socion cA Chent'Annos :SARD: 🎂

Jenni X

@Gargron wow! any advice for actually locating my friends? Other than like calling them on a phone and asking for their mastodon handle?

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