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I should put this blog post critique on my own blog. Damn, that was some good writing. I'm on fire right now.
published.
A Critique of “To Forget is an Ethical Act” by Emily F. Gorcenski
https://nullrouted.space/2024/09/04/a-critique-of-to-forget-is-an-ethical-act-by-emily-f-gorcenski/
please boost for visibility <3
writer's block? I don't know her anymore.
@djsundog thank you 
@packetcat yeah she totally lost me at "product strategy" 
Her positive observations about Bluesky's implementation of microblogging are valid, but frankly it succeeds despite its technical underpinnings and AT protocol not because of it. She *almost* gets it when pointing out Bookwyrm, briefly acknowledging the potential of applications that adopt ActivityPub. I think Fedizens would to well to seriously move away from equating Mastodon or at least the "Mastodon Way" of doing things.
The Big Happenings of 2022 really brought my view of fedi into perspective. For me it really revealed not only that the fediverse doesn't need Mastodon to succeed but also the ways that Mastodon has actually been holding back the success if the fediverse. It is why I use and support the forks instead of mainline Mastodon and why I am keenly interested in new and better ways to use ActivityPub than microblogging focused apps.
I still like Mastodon but don't think it should define the fediverse.
@msh aye, agreed with this. these days I don't really care about the Mastodon project itself but the fediverse and ActivityPub as a whole. The most interesting fediverse software project to me right now is @gotosocial the developers over there are great and doing great work!
I do have to care about Mastodon the software a little bit because I run Ten Forward and it uses Mastodon but other than that I'd rather be using GoToSocial.
@packetcat I set up coales.co primarily as a way to get (back) into the fediverse, as it seemed more vibrant and a much better experience than GNU social was before it, and I wanted to experience it from the perspective of having my own server vs just joining someone else's. Even in 2017 joining mastodon.social did not appeal (not just because of the technical challenges it was having in response to the First Big Wave lol).
My experiences and frustrations with it greatly motivated migrating to the #Hometown fork, and if I didn't have to worry about earning a living during most of my waking hours I would probably have already developed and migrated to a totally different fedi app of my own (which would of course continue to interoperate and feature posting notes but would be quite different otherwise...something much more closely resembling a modern take on a FidoNet or Citadel BBS).