The kind of drama happening now (ie. devs ignoring specific requests put forth by some users) is the natural outcome of the benevolent dictatorship model and proves that, no matter how decent, good and caring a person is when starting a massive FOSS project, they are ALL bound to reach the "I make the rules" stage, because that's the nature of human beings when exposed to massive stress.
Let's stop #ForkOff and make #Mastodon a #Cooperative NOW!
@Antanicus 1/2 I can't help thinking that this is not going to work. You can't force @gargron to change his development model, or to develop things that he doesn't want to do. Nor should you be able to.
So the only option is to fork or use something else. That's just the way it is.
Complaining that you can't fork because you can't code is a moot point because the only option is to fork, and AFAIK code doesn't write itself. If you can't code the fork will have to find someone who can....
