I'm very sorry to learn that Rochko is stepping down as Mastodon CEO. I think he has probably contributed more than any other person to the success of the Fediverse. And it won't be the same without him.

threads = meta/Facebook... one of the main reasons why people came to the fediverse in the first place, was to get the hell away from those crappy corporations. who honestly though it was smart to have them try to infect the fediverse.

It occurs to me anyway that making Fediverse apps in the shape and likeness of corporate media was a mistake. Even without the ever-present feed algorithms, people still post as though they are in an attention economy in these formats because they were conditioned to do so for years.

I understand that this was done to make adoption and migration easier, but I feel like the Fediverse ultimately needs to succeed on its own terms.

I'm hoping the sucessor of the fediverse is something from the spritely institute

Link to audio: https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/mastodon-creator-shares-what-went-wrong-with-threads-and-ponders-the-future-of-the-fediverse/#h-listen-to-the-full-interview

However, while I saw some really nice updates come through, I also saw some that weren’t so great. It felt like they were making poor choices, likely because of their legal department.

Eugen Rochko: That’s exactly how I would put it. It’s like Cambridge Analytica burned them, and they didn’t want a repeat. And that really limited what they could do.

The tone of how they speak about Meta and Threads bothers me. It was incredibly obvious why it failed.