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   Mastodon (mastodon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 00:32:12 JST Mastodon

   Hello! We're the team that builds and supports Mastodon, alongside the community. Today, we wanted to share an update on our organisation. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/

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     Mastodon (mastodon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 00:34:43 JST Mastodon

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     • Mastodon.social Staff
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     In the coming weeks, we'll be using this account to share a wider range of posts about what we're working on - events we're attending, updates from team members, and so on. You can also follow the core engineering team @MastodonEngineering and if you have an account on mastodon.social or mastodon.online (the two instances we operate) you can follow @staff

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     Mastodon (mastodon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 00:36:45 JST Mastodon

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     You can also expect to see us sharing more about the project outside of the Fediverse (in places like LinkedIn or YouTube) - this is so that more people can hear about a better, decentralised and more user-oriented alternative to legacy platforms.

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     bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵 (bazkie@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 01:01:14 JST bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵

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     @Mastodon I'm not happy about hiring people who work/worked for Amazon, Google etc..

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     MisterMultiverse (mistermultiverse@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 01:09:52 JST MisterMultiverse

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     @Mastodon are you for profit?

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     Mastodon (mastodon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 01:11:28 JST Mastodon

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     • bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵

     @bazkie we appreciate the hesitation about those organisations, but we're hiring individuals and their experience, rather than the company they worked for in previous lives. There's a strong value alignment amongst the people in the team.

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     Mastodon (mastodon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 01:11:33 JST Mastodon

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     • MisterMultiverse

     @MisterMultiverse we're non-profit - to ensure that this remains the case, we're restructuring into a new governance structure. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/

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     Fubaroque (fubaroque@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 01:13:31 JST Fubaroque

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     @Mastodon This sounds just like the corporate spam I get from my employer… and they are paying me to ignore it. 🤔

     #unfollow

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     Mastodon (mastodon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 01:16:49 JST Mastodon

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     • [nate@social0 ~]$ :idle:

     @gangrif thanks for these questions! We are working on it, and we're excited that some of the new folks on the core team bring fresh perspectives on these topics. We think we've made some improvements in the past couple of releases and we'll continue to do so.

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     [nate@social0 ~]$ :idle: (gangrif@social.undrground.org)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 01:16:51 JST [nate@social0 ~]$ :idle:

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     @Mastodon i think this is great news! We need more people to know about mastodon. But. I worry about the things people have complained about in the past. Difficulty signing up, confusion around choosing a home instance, too many decisions having to be made in order to get started. and lastly, unfortunately, and unwelcoming user base.

     I realize that some of this is out of your control. and some is human nature rather than a technical problem to solve. But i see a lot of folks try mastodon. and never even get past signup. Is there something that can be done there so that new users are not immediately turned off to the platform?

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     jade (karebu@social.karebu.gay)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 01:17:53 JST jade

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     • bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵

     @bazkie @Mastodon

     Phantasm and wormthen like this.
     wormthen repeated this.
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     bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵 (bazkie@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 01:17:55 JST bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵

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     @Mastodon yeah.. I'm sure people who work for Amazon and Google have a strong value alignment..

     maybe not with OUR values, but hey, they have the some tech experience! 🤡

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     bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵 (bazkie@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 01:37:20 JST bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵

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     • jade

     @karebu @Mastodon you have managed a level of edginess I did not know was possible. I have a cringe-kink and trust me, I'm fully erect right now.

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     Distante (distante@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 02:51:57 JST Distante

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     @Mastodon It would make sense if by clicking on the author's name I could see the author's page or other articles written by the author

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     Mastodon (mastodon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 05:38:08 JST Mastodon

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     • Lokjo - a European online map

     @lokjo great suggestion, will see whether this is something our mod and operation team can help with.

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     Lokjo - a European online map (lokjo@mapstodon.space)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 05:38:09 JST Lokjo - a European online map

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     @Mastodon

     Awesome! As a bit of feedback, since Mastodon is european, and roughly half of the users are european, it would be great to see more european posts/news/suggested accounts in the explore tabs. 😊

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     Mastodon (mastodon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 06:35:22 JST Mastodon

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     • Fabian【ファビアン】🏳️‍🌈

     @fabiscafe thanks for this feedback. We've got a new designer joining soon, we have other new team members with additional perspectives. We've also been working on the Fediscovery project https://fediscovery.org to improve some of the things you mentioned. We're moving forwards!

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     Fabian【ファビアン】🏳️‍🌈 (fabiscafe@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 06:35:24 JST Fabian【ファビアン】🏳️‍🌈

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     @Mastodon but currently, mastodon is by far to complicated. How will you go on fixing the huge usability shortcomings with finding people, finding posts, following people, reposting, reacting and stuff like this.
     I mean you said you will share things outside the fediverse. But people clicking on shared things there will just notice the problem right away.

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     Mastodon (mastodon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 06:48:44 JST Mastodon

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     • Angela Scholder

     @AngelaScholder thank you, we're working on this with the new European non-profit that is being created right now. We do need to list the details of the US 501(c)(3) entity (which is for fundraising) on the site, but totally understand your point. Please stand by while the necessary processes are completed.

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     Angela Scholder (angelascholder@mastodon.energy)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 06:48:45 JST Angela Scholder

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     @Mastodon To be honest, I really think that Mastodon should not have a prominent office in the US, but it should be clear to be a European entity under EU laws.

     With the US office in New York mentioned on the website as prominent as it is, I think might very well turn a lot of people who want a break from US tech away from using Mastodon.

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     Mastodon (mastodon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 06:51:19 JST Mastodon

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     • Fabian【ファビアン】🏳️‍🌈

     @fabiscafe thank you so much for wanting to help! We have a lot of open issues, suggestions and discussions (as you can probably see on GitHub) so please look to see whether anything you want to open has already been created before logging something new.

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     Fabian【ファビアン】🏳️‍🌈 (fabiscafe@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 06:51:20 JST Fabian【ファビアン】🏳️‍🌈

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     @Mastodon Thanks! Please let us know any progress. :neocat_aww:
     I wanted to open a usability-collection-issue on github listing all the currently known shortcommings. Do you think this is something worth doing at this point?

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     @spyhunter256@mastodon.social (spyhunter256@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 14:08:48 JST @spyhunter256@mastodon.social

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     @Mastodon THX fer sharing

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     Open Risk (openrisk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 15:12:40 JST Open Risk

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     @Mastodon it will be tricky to liberate people from legacy social media platforms. People that embrace the values and vision of the #fediverse have already migrated years ago, despite the usability issues. New opportunities do come when there are major shocks, like political events but luck favors the prepared: #bluesky grew a lot as of late because of a smoother UX and catering in particular to US users fleeing X/Tweeter.

     Tough job but failure not an option 🙏😍😬🖖

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     Hummus Member☭🔻 (curiouscitycat@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 00:59:04 JST Hummus Member☭🔻

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     @Mastodon Can you please have an algorithm so people can find posts relevant to them? It's the biggest issue for me to convince other users

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     Tygeryder (basriu@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 06:44:33 JST Tygeryder

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     @Mastodon Good luck, I hope all proposed changes and taken actions will turn out to be good for the platform and for the account holders of the #fediverse.

     In support of your decision to not accept VC funds, I just made a small donation.

     Thank you, and Godspeed!