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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @gleasonator OP 10 Oct \ parent \ on: I'm Alex Gleason, creator of Soapbox, Ditto, and Shakespeare.diy. AMA! AMA
In 10 years Mastodon won't exist anymore. Someone will use an app and it will just be integrated with Nostr without them even realizing it.
I think it's a problem that many clients consider all relays to be "equal". We need to either prioritize fast relays automatically, or make the user set a single "home" relay and change the way loading works. The usual way it's done is to just wait for all relays to be finished before displaying a feed, meaning it will be as slow as the slowest relay (up to a point, when the client times it out).
It's a bunch of disjointed dev projects, usually by just one person (a developer), and the censorship-resistance aspects are usually emphasized more than good design. I think it's possible to do it all, though.
I can wear many hats. I can be a programmer and an advocate. But I can only be one at a time, and it takes days to transform.
Maybe there's some bigger evolutionary reason, but once you accept that humans are just like this it makes it easier: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Cognitive_bias_codex_en.svg
There is a huge debate around whether I am Sonic and Gargron of Mastodon.social is Shadow, or whether I am Shadow and Gargron of Mastodon.social is Sonic. I think it's a sort of yin and yang.
I would not stop improving it, but I always want to put my attention towards where I think the world needs me most.
We need some buildings that are truly beautiful. This is the biggest thing separating America from Europe in my mind.
I think it does the boring labor of creative works. It does the "how", but not the "why". So I like it.