Mike Stone (@mike@fosstodon.org)
fosstodon.org
Attached: 1 image This is profoundly ungood. https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110570234530667280 #Pixelfed #Fediverse

These messages are from Daniel Supernault, primary maintainer of Pixelfed.

I don’t want to recap the FediDrama here (drama recaps have a way of becoming drama themselves), but I suspect it’s the reason he’s taking a break.

I’ve never met @dansup but I know he’s contributed so much to the Fediverse and OSS communities. I am still a newb myself (Twexit era). But - for the good of the OSS community - would it be too much to ask we show some respect for the pioneers who got us here?

    • cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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      2 years ago

      It’s a combination of:

      1. people hate Facebook and don’t want them anywhere near the fediverse and
      2. secret talks with NDAs never foretell good things.

      Meta’s reputation most certainly precedes them here, and they’re not a company known for politely co-existing with others but rather for stomping in, and taking what they want and packaging it and selling it.

      IMO people have a reasonable basis for reacting strongly (though it’s 2023 and the ‘hyperbolic over-reaction’ is the required thing online it seems).