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I feel enormous empathy for tiny teams doing high-pressure work. I think Rochko and his team have pulled off great work over the past six years, and I think the tendency to assume the worst motivations for every action maintainers take is a great example of the way that treating open-source projects like merchants and behaving like enraged customers is gross and destructive. But I also think the best way out of the overloaded-maintainer nightmare is to:

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I feel enormous empathy for tiny teams doing high-pressure work. I think Rochko and his team have pulled off great work over the past six years, and I think the tendency to assume the worst motivations for every action maintainers take is a great example of the way that treating open-source projects like merchants and behaving like enraged customers is gross and destructive. But I also think the best way out of the overloaded-maintainer nightmare is to:
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Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-May-2023 17:27:00 UTC Chris Trottier

So @kissane has spent the bulk of her post criticizing Mastodon’s product design, talking about how Bluesky—a company with million in sees money—does it better, even though Bluesky is in beta and not nearly finished.
Now she expresses empathy for Mastodon, and the work Eugen has done over the past 6 years.
And well, I keep wondering: what would @kissane have done different if she were in Eugen’s shoes?

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