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 @rysiek It's a shame that in Eugen's attempt to grow Mastodon, he's creating the very vulnerabilities that siloed social media has. That and subjecting the rest of us to those risks. This is hedging into the role of dictator. "I am going to change your online experience but I won't bother asking you first. Because I own this instance and don't really care about the collateral effects..." 5 comments
 @Lucinda @the_Effekt I've been defending him exactly this way for 5 years and honestly I am quite tired by now. I don't see nor paint him as a dictator. But m.s has an outsized influence on fedi, Mastodon-the-software has an outsized influence on fedi, and Gargron controls both. He makes certain decisions — like making m.s *the* default — ignoring people saying this is a bad idea. So gets to deal with consequnces of these decisions. As they affect everyone else on fedi. @rysiek Oh, that comment was directed at the person who was saying the dictator thing, not you. I haven't been in this sector of the fediverse for long (despite being around for the birth of the fediverse) but I can understand your frustration and share some of it. @the_Effekt |
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@the_Effekt It's a bit hyperbolic to position Eugen as a dictator. He's trying to solve a problem a lot of higher profile users here were citing as as an urgent problem that he needed to fix because no easy onboarding was turning people off. As reporters continually mislabeled the fediverse Mastodon, Mastodon was going to to be a target.
He's also just a guy doing a thing, even if he got "lucky" in the open social sweepstakes by being at the right place at the right moment. @rysiek