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by ChrisMarshallNY 1317 days ago
That’s a great write-up.

I suspect that a lot of folks are in the same boat. Mastodon will be getting a workout. The bugs will show up en masse, but they will also be fixed, and the service will improve greatly, as a result, with a lot of “lessons learned” lore, added to the canon.

I noticed that CNN ran a front-page story on Mastodon, so it’s now mainstream.

Welcome to the big leagues, li’l buddy…
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mdaniel 1317 days ago
On a related thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33562163) there was some discussion about the fork-centric model of Mastodon codebases and instances, so "will also be fixed" is one of those nuanced things: they may be fixed in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon but how long will it take to fold those patches into the forks and update the hundreds(?) of instances out there advertising their version number on the homepage?
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ChrisMarshallNY 1317 days ago
That's the issue with these federated systems.

I'm the original author of a [much more humble] independent, federated system, and understand this.

It basically takes patience. Having an "upgrade carrot," to encourage folks to go through the upgrade (and making the upgrade seamless) is helpful.

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