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(DIR) Post #Atecqx4KkVPxzwV5F2 by Mastodon@mastodon.social
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Hello! We're the team that builds and supports Mastodon, alongside the community. Today, we wanted to share an update on our organisation. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/
(DIR) Post #Ated4sE5YD0526hYlE by Mastodon@mastodon.social
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In the coming weeks, we'll be using this account to share a wider range of posts about what we're working on - events we're attending, updates from team members, and so on. You can also follow the core engineering team @MastodonEngineering and if you have an account on mastodon.social or mastodon.online (the two instances we operate) you can follow @staff
(DIR) Post #AtedGAPeH4AucfUfxo by Mastodon@mastodon.social
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You can also expect to see us sharing more about the project outside of the Fediverse (in places like LinkedIn or YouTube) - this is so that more people can hear about a better, decentralised and more user-oriented alternative to legacy platforms.
(DIR) Post #AtedQ4hyL1ezpImylk by bazkie@beige.party
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@Mastodon I'm not happy about hiring people who work/worked for Amazon, Google etc..
(DIR) Post #Atef5ygHEo1nFXXaV6 by anca@mastodon.xyz
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@Mastodon This is good news. As the premiere platform on Fediverse, Mastodon needs a more mature organization to continue demonstrating what decentralized social media can really be.
(DIR) Post #AtefHG8of3BqaTGkWu by Mastodon@mastodon.social
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@owls thanks for the questions. The non-profit situation is a major reason for our restructuring to a better organisational model / foundation. No new C-level hire in this update. Trust & Safety remains a high priority and we are absolutely working on the tooling side of things (and every hire comes with T&S in mind); we're also grateful to the team that looks after our hosted instances.
(DIR) Post #AtefNsR5CBPt5qy7vM by Mastodon@mastodon.social
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@bazkie we appreciate the hesitation about those organisations, but we're hiring individuals and their experience, rather than the company they worked for in previous lives. There's a strong value alignment amongst the people in the team.
(DIR) Post #AtefX5FSvaOzRAvPai by fubaroque@mastodon.social
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@Mastodon This sounds just like the corporate spam I get from my employer… and they are paying me to ignore it. 🤔 #unfollow
(DIR) Post #AtefxP0K6BzmEoOMZE by JBrickelt963@framapiaf.org
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@Mastodon il faut pouvoir sensibiliser là où les gens sont. Ce qui est parfaitement normal.
(DIR) Post #Atefz3OzO0KfoqiVAu by bazkie@beige.party
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@Mastodon yeah.. I'm sure people who work for Amazon and Google have a strong value alignment..maybe not our values, but hey, they have the right experience! 🤡
(DIR) Post #AtegDQ6Lmrq8H3qhKC by MisterMultiverse@mastodon.social
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@Mastodon are you for profit?
(DIR) Post #AtegMfzS5BNm9t2IGO by Mastodon@mastodon.social
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@MisterMultiverse we're non-profit - to ensure that this remains the case, we're restructuring into a new governance structure. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/
(DIR) Post #AtegeAfRHL3uE118Cm by gangrif@social.undrground.org
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@Mastodon i think this is great news! We need more people to know about mastodon. But. I worry about the things people have complained about in the past. Difficulty signing up, confusion around choosing a home instance, too many decisions having to be made in order to get started. and lastly, unfortunately, and unwelcoming user base. I realize that some of this is out of your control. and some is human nature rather than a technical problem to solve. But i see a lot of folks try mastodon. and never even get past signup. Is there something that can be done there so that new users are not immediately turned off to the platform?
(DIR) Post #AtegfWsSBjNrOhki9Y by moftasa@mastodon.online
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@Mastodon they'll shadow ban you. Unless you pay them to promote your content. What's the point 😔
(DIR) Post #AtegpbOcF5seJ9bCuu by Mastodon@mastodon.social
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@gangrif thanks for these questions! We are working on it, and we're excited that some of the new folks on the core team bring fresh perspectives on these topics. We think we've made some improvements in the past couple of releases and we'll continue to do so.
(DIR) Post #AtejdPbIZUw672PUlk by donelias@mastodon.cr
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@Mastodon happy to see Mastodon growing and taking care of tasks beyond coding
(DIR) Post #AtepKB8qhk8fUZJc1I by Distante@mastodon.social
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@Mastodon It would make sense if by clicking on the author's name I could see the author's page or other articles written by the author
(DIR) Post #AtepSfYvU9XQ9lYrh2 by Mastodon@mastodon.social
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@mkj thanks for this! This is high on our list of priorities, but we do need to get the new organisational entity created first. Hopefully it will not be too long 🤞🏻
(DIR) Post #AtepZQSM30FBKii27c by fabiscafe@mstdn.social
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@Mastodon but currently, mastodon is by far to complicated. How will you go on fixing the huge usability shortcomings with finding people, finding posts, following people, reposting, reacting and stuff like this.I mean you said you will share things outside the fediverse. But people clicking on shared things there will just notice the problem right away.
(DIR) Post #Atf07Mc7q4awnt6KGm by lokjo@mapstodon.space
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@Mastodon Awesome! As a bit of feedback, since roughly half of the users are european, it would be great to see more european posts/news/suggested accounts in the explore tabs. 😊
(DIR) Post #Atf0jeLuKuDAp3ltaK by jonny@neuromatch.social
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@MastodonHell ya
(DIR) Post #Atf49lGHZOo1dvHb8K by Mastodon@mastodon.social
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@lokjo great suggestion, will see whether this is something our mod and operation team can help with.
(DIR) Post #Atf9GSBvN35qINFrrU by Mastodon@mastodon.social
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@fabiscafe thanks for this feedback. We've got a new designer joining soon, we have other new team members with additional perspectives. We've also been working on the Fediscovery project https://fediscovery.org to improve some of the things you mentioned. We're moving forwards!
(DIR) Post #Atf9yx2Q2pq6hr1jai by fabiscafe@mstdn.social
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@Mastodon Thanks! Please let us know any progress. :neocat_aww: I wanted to open a usability-collection-issue on github listing all the currently known shortcommings. Do you think this is something worth doing at this point?
(DIR) Post #AtfA6FlknifopLiK0W by AngelaScholder@mastodon.energy
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@Mastodon To be honest, I really think that Mastodon should not have a prominent office in the US, but it should be clear to be a European entity under EU laws.With the US office in New York mentioned on the website as prominent as it is, I think might very well turn a lot of people who want a break from US tech away from using Mastodon.
(DIR) Post #AtfASPmeFRnOG0hRA0 by Mastodon@mastodon.social
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@AngelaScholder thank you, we're working on this with the new European non-profit that is being created right now. We do need to list the details of the US 501(c)(3) entity (which is for fundraising) on the site, but totally understand your point. Please stand by while the necessary processes are completed.
(DIR) Post #AtfAgY6S768o76hceG by Mastodon@mastodon.social
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@fabiscafe thank you so much for wanting to help! We have a lot of open issues, suggestions and discussions (as you can probably see on GitHub) so please look to see whether anything you want to open has already been created before logging something new.
(DIR) Post #AtfnjNXdjYKmRGl9NY by spyhunter256@mastodon.social
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@Mastodon THX fer sharing
(DIR) Post #AtftQhvqIXr7twYnQ0 by openrisk@mastodon.social
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@Mastodon it will be tricky to liberate people from legacy social media platforms. People that embrace the values and vision of the #fediverse have already migrated years ago, despite the usability issues. New opportunities do come when there are major shocks, like political events but luck favors the prepared: #bluesky grew a lot as of late because of a smoother UX and catering in particular to US users fleeing X/Tweeter.Tough job but failure not an option 🙏😍😬🖖
(DIR) Post #AtgX7F3JRZ9czuKLE8 by TeflonTrout@beige.party
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@Mastodon Mastodon is right, chill, it doesn't matter where they came from. Only thing that matters is "what can they do for us." It doesn't matter that they presumably worked quietly and happily for organizations that do everything they can to profit, especially things that wreck our country and the planetI mean, we imported actual Nazis from Germany to work on rocketry, and now we have the world's most advanced space program and NO OTHER PROBLEMS associated with Nazery WHATSOEVERY'all lost your goddamned minds
(DIR) Post #AtioH4JOJqAI7Q2UM4 by CuriousCityCat@mastodon.social
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@Mastodon Can you please have an algorithm so people can find posts relevant to them? It's the biggest issue for me to convince other users
(DIR) Post #AtjJ6mWgggsMdnpic4 by BasriU@mastodon.social
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@Mastodon Good luck, I hope all proposed changes and taken actions will turn out to be good for the platform and for the account holders of the #fediverse. In support of your decision to not accept VC funds, I just made a small donation. Thank you, and Godspeed!
(DIR) Post #AtpJqzZffmYdNW1UqO by grievousangel@ravenation.club
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@Mastodon well, this is good news
(DIR) Post #AtrQtoCdUq1wySSUwS by elCelio@mastodon.uno
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@Mastodon @fabiscafe It seems to me that what is necessary is more order on the GitHub suggestions: duplicates, suggestions that have been already ruled out, features impossibile to do, or otherwise easy to implement, suggestions not relevant because they pertain to specific apps or instances and not the software, etc. etc.That would make easier for the team to make decisions and for the community to contribute.My 2 cents.