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The Trouble with Forking Mastodon (wedistribute.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A lot of people have talked about the possibility of forking Mastodon to get the many improvements their communities need. Making such an effort successful is another discussion entirely.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

There's no such thing as perfect software.

This was a huge learning in my journey. Realising that every technical decision is a matter of tradeoffs - that there is no perfect pattern/framework/library/implementation/architecture/whatever.

Once the obviously bad choices have been eliminated.