@opphunter88@lamp I pushed federation extremely hard. At a point I just started saying the word "federation" constantly to make a point.
"You know what would fix that? Federation." "Now that we did that other thing, maybe next we can add federation." "How bout that federation?" "I think we should do the thing Mastodon was designed to do, which is federate." "Federation! Amirite?!"
I pitched it multiple times. I even got a bunch of people to agree with me. But it still never happened, I'll let you decide why.
@alex@lamp There’s really no way I could guess because Truth never had a bloviating idiot leaking all their project goals like a certain other Mastodon fork I know of. Maybe the CTO or whoever just didn’t want to 🤷♂️
To be fair, masto sucks, but they can do zero downtime upgrades and scale hundreds of sidekiq nodes. Pleroma uses a fraction of the resources, but can't scale past one node.
WHEN MASTODON FEDERATES ITS USERS IT’S NOT FEDERATING ITS BEST. IT’S NOT FEDERATING YOU. IT’S NOT!
IT’S FEDERATING USERS WITH A LOT OF MENTAL PROBLEMS, AND THEY’RE BRINGING THESE MENTAL PROBLEMS WITH THEM! THEY’RE MAPS. THEY’RE TRANS. THEY’RE OTHERKIN. AND SOME, I ASSUME, ARE GOOD PROPLE.
NOT ON MY WATCH FOLKS, NOT GONNA HAPPEN! THEY HAVE TO GO BACK! WE’RE GOING TO BUILD A BIG, BEAUTIFUL FIREWALL – THE BEST – AND MAKE MASTODON PAY FOR IT.