@LWFlouisa Havent seen you in years, figured you left the fediverse.. Its wonderful to see you again!

@freemo Then I found out others were having the same experience with Eugene.

@LWFlouisa Yea QOTO got royally screwed by him too... He has been a disapointment for a lot of people.

@freemo its awful people got screwed, but its also oddly reassuring.

Once I got more technical ( I am learning that every I learn to code, Im figuring out how much I dont know ) I was wanting to fork Mastodon.

And make ita bit more like Diaspora, but having aspects that make Mastodon more current.

@LWFlouisa @freemo Oh that would be interesting. Mastodon needs a bit more shaking up. The basis is ok but there are so many things that could be better.

@trinsec

A fork is a lot of wirk (QOTO is a fork).. but yea its desperately needed for someone to fork mastodon and fix eugenes mess ups IMO

@LWFlouisa

@freemo @LWFlouisa
There are a few interesting Mastodon forks around already, might be worth trying to get off those? Glitch for example? Or am I talking noob now?

@trinsec @freemo Yea Glitch and Soapbox I'm really enjoying.

I wanting to run one instance local only to test out chatbots first. That's mostly because I'm more used to static website generator.

But I thought why not test the decentralized west world like concept at a small scale so I know it actually works.

@LWFlouisa

Like so many things in the fediverse there is a large group of people who wills uspend you for running soapbox at all.. apparently only Nazis run soapbox or something like that...

@trinsec

@freemo @LWFlouisa @trinsec is it a large group? Until now I thought it's mostly the few most extreme instances you wouldn't want to federate with anyway.

@Amikke

It is "the few extreme instances" and that is a larger group than I'd like to admit sadly.

@LWFlouisa @trinsec

@freemo @Amikke @trinsec My fear with Soapbox was they were letting in a certain part of politics, that was becoming way to ubiquitous at the time.

( I am disillusioned by some aspects of the left, but I'm not that disillusioned. )

@LWFlouisa

Personally i dont know why politics has anything to do with what UI you use.

@Amikke @trinsec

@freemo
Oh man, that reminds me of the blocklist-search-originally-from-kiwifarms debacle.. -.-

@LWFlouisa @Amikke

@trinsec @freemo @Amikke

Well you're all correct, and that's actually precisely my fear with Eugene's approach.

For those who don't know I got kicked from the main precisely because political things going on I wasn't aware of.

Though it's not always easy to tell, because the default message is the same.

@LWFlouisa

Ha, not even surprised... sorry about that.

@trinsec @Amikke

@freemo @trinsec @Amikke

I might go into that on peertube, though it was a struggle to find one not ran by Eugene types.

But the long story is I was kicked for transphobia, despite being trans myself.

But also in the mean time found the privacy features of mastodon lacking compared to Diaspora.

@LWFlouisa

LAWL... Id love to see the post that got you kicked cause im pretty sure it was complete nonsense too... lol these people are so absurd sometimes.

@trinsec @Amikke