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Engineering Team Lead – driving innovative solutions for business problems. Browses the Internet since the '90s. Love Ruby. Universally interested. Relying on RSS. ∀x ∈ Post : xᵗᵒᵖⁱᶜ ∈ { 🧠, 💡, ✈️, 🪐, 🌍, 🗞️, 💻, 📺, 🚲, 🎛 } 📍Berlin 🇩🇪

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Gil@gil.desmarais.de · last yr.

“Mastodon Exit Interview”

Mastodon Exit Interview

I am currently winding down the Mastodon bots I used to post sunrise and sunset times. The precipitating event is that the admin of the instance hosting the associated accounts demanded they be made nigh-undiscoverable, but the underlying cause is that it’s become increasing clear that Mastodon isn’t, and won’t ever be, a good platform for “asynchronous ephemeral notifications of any kind”. I’d also argue (more controversially) that it’s simply not good infrastructure for social networking of any kind. There are lots of interesting people using Mastodon, and I’m sure it will live on as a good-enough space for certain niche groups. But there is no question that it will never offer the fun of early Twitter, let alone the vibrancy of Twitter during its growth phase. I’ve long since dropped Mastodon from my home screen, and have switched to Bluesky for text-centric social media.

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Gil@gil.desmarais.de · 2y ago

Hello everyone! Welcome to my little space online. ∀x ∈ Post : xᵗᵒᵖⁱᶜ ∈ { 🧠 (Brain), 💡 (Ideas), ✈️ (Travel), 🪐 (Space), 🌍 (Earth), 🗞️ (News), 💻 (Tech), 📺 (Media), 🚲 (Cycling), 🎛 (Music) } Follow for insights, ideas, and adventures — let’s grow together! 🌟 Cheers!