The attitude I guess is what bugged me the most, so I’m really glad that’s changed. I do understand that forking is a valid option for those with the wherewithal to do it, just seemed pretty arrogant of them to force that decision on everyone and not even entertain anything else. Thanks for setting me straight there!
I’m glad they’ve relented and made it editable. But, imo, “fork it yourself” does not invalidate any argument. Thats just going to result in Lemmy, and Lenny, and Lambchop, and Lemmiwinks, and lord knows what else… Or, worse, people are gonna fork whatever the current version is and then have to constantly merge upstream changes into their fork. Or not. So now you’ve got Lemmy 0.17.4 and Larry 0.16.5 and Loser 2.5 (because that dude changed the version number for shits and grins) and Microsoft Lemmy 2000 Me XP Pro Student & Teacher Edition. Because someone was capable of getting his server up and running but doesn’t have the time or inclination or experience to keep it properly up to date, because keeping it properly up to date is now much more difficult than it needs to be, because he had the audacity to disagree with one guy about what words he does and doesn’t want to see.
It may be an argument in and of itself against making a given change, but it certainly doesn’t invalidate any other arguments. And I don’t think it’s a very compelling argument anyway.
The whole idea of this federation business seems to be about freedom of choice and getting away from “them” telling “us” what we can and can’t do with our time, our content, our data. And basically my first experience with this platform was seeing the primary dev shutting down multiple issue tickets full of perfectly reasonable arguments because… I dunno, “Nazis are bad and I’m smarter than you, mmmkay”, I guess?
Just not a good look I don’t think. It definitely turned me off. I’m still here giving it a shot, but that kind of attitude doesn’t make me overly confident in the future of the platform.
Like I said, I’m glad they’ve relented, and I really hope this all works out.
I’m glad they’ve relented and made it editable now! The threads I’d seen mastodon about it, and the links to their GitHub tickets, were pretty disappointing to me. Glad it’s not the case anymore.
I’ve always been sort of vaguely curious what car company CEOs drive, if/when they aren’t just being chauffeured around in the company limo. Like, what’s in their garage, and if left to their own devices, what would they drive around in to run get groceries or go out to eat or whatever.
Moreso the “regular” car brands than the luxury ones. Like I assume the head of Porsche drives a high end Cayenne or 911 (or both), so that’s less interesting.
But, like, does the CEO of Chevrolet drive a Chevrolet? Does he have a maxed out Suburban? Or does he step up to the Escalade, even if it’s from a different division? Or does he eschew GM entirely and go for the Rolls/Bentley, or a pasta rocket?
In this case, it looks like Ford’s CEO is driving the direct competition, which is interesting. Makes sense, I suppose, though it’s not at all the answer I expected.