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Our Founder, @Gargron is stepping down from his position as CEO. He shared a reflection on his time building and growing Mastodon on our blog.

We want to take a moment to express the Mastodon team’s deep gratitude and admiration for Eugen, and for the technology and community he has built here […]

My vision for Mastodon is a different direction than all previous attempts at social media, by focussing on community ownership, Trust & Safety features, slow user & server growth, and financial sustainability - for the non-profit project, the server administrators, the moderators, and creators […]

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@bitprophet Exactly this.

I long ago made a decision that even on toy/personal projects, I would try to write decent code and treat each one as a learning opportunity. I take a productivity hit compared to people who can churn out weekend projects that are valid but only just work, but that's […]

Also, to be clear, it's okay to treat computing related jobs as just-a-paycheck! Not everyone has to be an ivory tower snooty-snoot (and TBH I'm not even that type of "computer scientist", the real PL enthusiasts run rings around me).

I just really, really don't like having my own ability to […]