CyberFrog on Nostr: Chris Trottier Very VERY much agree with all of this, Gargron and his control over ...
Chris Trottier (nprofile…rtmv) Very VERY much agree with all of this, Gargron and his control over the mastodon server codebase itself creates these problems sometimes (as do the other popular implementations and their devs), rejecting social discovery because they personally don't like it is absolutely no way to run a community project used by millions of people
Definitely think social discovery and search should just be implemented, ignore those people honestly, their concerns have been considered and discussed and I personally believe they are probably way overblown compared to the benefits of actually improving the software, network, and discoverability of the fediverse in general, especially for new users.
This isn't to say that it's not important to consider the negative aspects of any change on the fediverse, it's absolutely critical to consider the impact of these things, but the reality is that we're just not implementing features because a small handful of people don't want them... not because it would be a huge issue for the fediverse itself tbh
As you said, I absolutely agree that there are some fair points against implementing this, but we need to face reality here and realize that the harmful actors don't care and have discoverability anyway, and everyone else suffers shitty UX without it.
Definitely think social discovery and search should just be implemented, ignore those people honestly, their concerns have been considered and discussed and I personally believe they are probably way overblown compared to the benefits of actually improving the software, network, and discoverability of the fediverse in general, especially for new users.
This isn't to say that it's not important to consider the negative aspects of any change on the fediverse, it's absolutely critical to consider the impact of these things, but the reality is that we're just not implementing features because a small handful of people don't want them... not because it would be a huge issue for the fediverse itself tbh
As you said, I absolutely agree that there are some fair points against implementing this, but we need to face reality here and realize that the harmful actors don't care and have discoverability anyway, and everyone else suffers shitty UX without it.