Comment on Mastodon’s founder cedes control to non-profit

• SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  A lot of fedi software is created by not great people sadly, even lemmy.

  Only a few projects I know of are created by actually decent people who care about the community and don’t have terrible beliefs/views.

  ‘Soft’ forks can only do so much and still rely on the upstream releasing new versions.

  Hard forks are quite unlikely to get either the same kind of backing or be able to be supported as much even if the people behind them have good intenions and viewpoints/beliefs.

  Sadly, under capitalism this is likely to be the case, even in the open source sphere, it’s the people that have the money or who can attract it that are able to continue working on things such as this full time and, unsurprisingly, that tends to be people who uphold power structures, not dismantle them.

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  • sleepybisexual@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ya. Lemmy is another mess. Misskey forks?

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    • SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Not sure.

      I haven’t really looked into the people behind it.

      The only original project I’m currently sure that has good people behind it that care is gotosocial.

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      • sleepybisexual@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I like Sharkey too

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