Mastodon Announces Fediverse Discovery Providers
submitted 2 weeks ago by Sean Tilley
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Earlier this month, the Mastodon project announced a new initiative funded by NGI Search: Fediverse Discovery Providers! The goal is to build a resource framework for different kinds of services that can work with potentially any instance or platform.
Of course mastodon wanna power grab
Why are you interpreting this as a power grab?
Mastodon has a history of steamrolling other implementations.
The site even warns that theyre on a deadline and may not incorporate feedback.
EDIT: they also mention a "setting" that determines if a user/post is searchable. theyve presented a FEP to formalize this setting but nearly everyone else had issues with their proposal. as usual for mastodon, this looks like them sidestepping external feedback and just doing what they want
*into the first release.
Not just cherry picking statements but also failing to explain how that is a power grab.
I didn't cherry pick a statement. I included the part where they said the very first draft.
I did fail to explain how its a power grab, but that's was only because I thought it was a fairly obvious one-to-one point. I've also added another example. But lemme try again.
A more collaborative way to do this would have been to seek feedback before making a grant proposal and making the grant proposal jointly with other projects so they weren't the only ones getting paid for it.
You quoted the whole part, but only addressed the first half of it, contradicting the second one in the process. Saying they may not be able to incorporate feedback into the first release is a very different statement than saying they may not be able to incorporate feedback at all.
It's adding centralisation where there's no need for any. In the same way that BlueSky cosplays as decentralized, this is what this effectively tries to move towards. In that whoever runs the relays/indexers is in control.