The Trouble with Forking Mastodon - eviltoast

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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    6 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.