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If you’ve heard that people have problems with the head of mastodon (gargron) this recent little incident might be an example. (github.com)
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The link is to a GitHub discussion, where gargron shuts down a discussion because he’s made a unilateral decision and then locks the thread to avoid debate.

On its own, it might not seem like much. Someone’s gotta make the decisions, right!? Except that this is a pretty dramatic shift for mastodon (leaning into search more) and the main ask was to provide two options rather than roll multiple things into one, which is pretty reasonable. Plus, why not get user feedback? Mastodon has plenty of users after all? Add to this that the main masto instance intends to federate with meta’s threads and gargron has signed an NDA, and the tin foil hat starts to come out.

Alone, not much of a big deal, but it’s an insight into why people find masto devs difficult (AFAIU).

EDIT: woah ... downvotes straight off of the bat ... which is fine ... but honestly, I'm not sure why the downvoting ... this was just an example of something some might find problematic ... feel free to discuss.

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The link is to a GitHub discussion, where gargron shuts down a discussion because he’s made a unilateral decision and then locks the thread to avoid debate.

a PR is not the place for that discussion. Discussion is the place for Feature Discussions so I totally get his motivation to lock that part:

I'm locking this before this devolves into another search feature debate. Your feedback has been noted.

[–] 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

a PR is not the place for that discussion.

You're right, but gargron would do the same thing on an issue. He's done it before; it's how he handles disagreement.