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1. rudolf 🇺🇦 (rudolf@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 25-Apr-2022 15:42:48 UTC rudolf 🇺🇦

   Mastodon plans to eliminate the local timeline and replace that by groups across instances. I believe this would damage the federated structure of Mastodon. Why care to be in the right place if you can be somewhere and join a group. Who is going to keep the group clean? Why should anyone care to run such a fine place as Fosstodon?
   If I would have wanted to use Twitter I wouldn't be here.
   Why do FOSS projects have this urge to dismantle themselves as soon as they get big?

   https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/04/official-apps-now-available-for-ios-and-android/

   • Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Apr-2022 15:42:34 UTC Tagomago

     in reply to

     • ˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 💥☠️✊:
     • dan :manjaro: :kde: :python:

     @dajbelshaw @edboythinks @rudolf CoCs, probably? Also, that would inevitable happen whenever groups are added, regardless the existence of local timelines. Personally, I prefer the topic oriented concept of groups, but that doesn't prevent creating local groups, as @edboythinks mentioned.

   • ˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 💥☠️✊: (dajbelshaw@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 25-Apr-2022 15:42:35 UTC ˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 💥☠️✊:

     in reply to

     • dan :manjaro: :kde: :python:

     @edboythinks Agreed, but @rudolf makes an excellent point about motivations. Why bother running an instance when it doesn't matter which one you're on?

   • dan :manjaro: :kde: :python: (edboythinks@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 25-Apr-2022 15:42:41 UTC dan :manjaro: :kde: :python:

     in reply to

     @rudolf sounds like, if configured correctly, it could just be local timeline with extra features

   • rudolf 🇺🇦 (rudolf@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 25-Apr-2022 15:42:48 UTC rudolf 🇺🇦

     in reply to

     The part of the joinmastodon blog I am referring to:

     " ...
     We also have a vision of a new feature to eventually supplant local timelines: groups. We imagine a group as a place with an actually separate timeline that you can post to, without the post also going out to the public, your profile, and your followers’ home feeds. This timeline could be made visible for group members only. You could join it from your account on any other server,
     ... "