it really doesn't matter what eugen thinks or does, mastodon is open source and we can take the ball, the whole field, all of the goalposts and the players, and go wherever we like
tbqh it's us who need to stop treating eugen like some tech CEO who must be deferred to, and .social as 'too big to defederate'
.social would be a pretty terrible social network all on its own, so it's actually us who give them legitimacy, and not the other way around
@yonabee that's what I'm always saying! when masto was starting to get attention from twitter's collapse every article was treating eugen like the zuckerberg or dorsey of the fediverse, because under capitalism the only story we know is that of the 'great man'
but the fediverse wasn't created by eugen. heck, even the best parts of mastodon weren't made by him. he's frankly stood in the way of a lot of the great work that made this place so much better than twitter to begin with
@yonabee eugen seems desperate for the status of being the next jack dorsey and for the percieved legitimacy of having Threads integration and it sucks
but so many other people seem to think we need some tech boy figurehead for the same legitimacy. we don't! we've got so many wonderful people here working on the stuff that really matters and we're all the stronger for it. building community is never the work of one guy and it sure shouldn't be
@yonabee oh no.... that is such tech startup brain poison. that's exactly the shit that happens when some techboy gets some investment money and suddenly wants to do wacky shit to seem cool and successful
@Yza@yonabee worst case scenario 10 years from now there's been a government crackdown on "mastodon" and we're sharing pleroma updates transferring SD cards through funny handshakes in strange parts of town