Seriously, what’s with the doomerism on @gruber’s part?
Apparently, everything is “doomed” if things don’t follow his precise prescription for how things should be.
I, myself, criticize Mastodon. Quite often, in fact. But calling it “doomed”? That’s a stretch.
Seriously, @gruber, Mastodon is a non-profit taking on a corporation with $13 million in funding.
This shouldn’t be a competition, but it is.
There’s no excuse for #Bluesky to be working on this since 2019—with full-time staff, I might add—and not be beating Mastodon to a pulp.
Yet, it’s Bluesky who’s playing catch-up here. Let’s be honest.
And @gruber keeps talking about how “easy” #Bluesky is.
Is that true? Or is he just in the honeymoon phase with the new shiny thing?
Because if I’m being bluntly honest, there’s a lot that’s not “easy” about Bluesky. Search, for example.
Or how about the fact Bluesky doesn’t even have a URL shortened yet?
And why does no one talk about this?!
The other thing about @gruber is that he refuses to try any other ActivityPub project except Mastodon.
Yeah, I’ve told him about other projects—and he acknowledges they exist.
But he refuses to try them because he says they just cater to the “lowest common denominator”.
Really? What’s so “lowest common denominator” about WordPress, Akkoma, Calckey, Friendica, Writely, /kbin, etc.?
@atomicpoet You have to understand where he's coming from.
He's very used to attaching himself to something, and then strongly identifying with that thing. This is of course true for the Apple stuff, but for the longest time it was Twitter, until it wasn't tenable anymore.
Twitter really suited him, since it very well matches his blogging style (quite something and add a few sentences of sometimes snarky commentary)
Twitter was definitely part of his "rise to fame" so to speak, since it amplified his blog posts, so being forced off the platform cannot have been easy.
I remember when G+ came out, and he made a single post on there pretty early, with a single sentence where he proclaimed he didn't enjoy it. Note that this was long before G+ actually failed.
So what do you do when your megaphone has been shut off? You go looking for another one. If your replacement megaphone has the property that it can be silenced by a nearby neighbourhood that doesn't want to hear it, you'll be upset.
@loke @atomicpoet It is ironic tho, that it is this kind of identifying with/as things that is the root cause of the exact petulant nannyism he is objecting to.
