@hamishcampbell That's a great post.

I may have judged you to quickly. So damned tired of meeting, reading or otherwise experiencing people that seem to love complaining about stuff, but doing something about it? Nah... hard pass. I'll stick with complaining.

Sorry for most likely misjudging you. Probably need to take a step back and consider my own harsh and likely too quick to jump the gun on conclusions mindset...

@dirkblank ... like.. why should they? Why does Mastodon have to talk about other pieces of software? Like... why?

I don't get it. Mastodon is a fantastic project and much because of it ... I'm here, and I'm sure tons of people like me discovered the Fediverse because of Mastodon.

They didn't have to tell me about all the other projects, I found them anyway. I want Mastodon to be Mastodon. As long as they are true to AP and continue to champion that... I'm happy.

Obligating them to promote other fediverse projects seem unnecessary. Let them stay focused on building their software, and Pixelfed can focus on theirs.

Should curl promote wget? Or should Fedora promote Ubuntu?

It makes no sense. They are all part of the same "movement", but that doesn't mean they hvae to champion each other, does it?

@hamishcampbell The beauty of open source, you can take Mastodon source code, and fork it and do whatever you want with it. Not happy with how they run things? Do something different if you have an idea you believe in.

Don't like their branding? Suggest something different? How about providing some solutions to the problems you experience?

Contribute, send a "PR", break it down into manageable components and make small iterative steps towards something ... better?

@_elena Unless you can do both at the same time... then do both

@_elena No, please don't. Spend your beautiful energy and time on building and contributing to what we already have.

Don't waste a second on deconstructing, arguing against stuff we don't control.

Make more videos like you did before, the Mastodon / Fediverse intro video. It was beautiful and awesome.

That's what you should do. Build, don't destroy.