These messages are from Daniel Supernault, primary maintainer of Pixelfed.
I don’t want to recap the FediDrama here (drama recaps have a way of becoming drama themselves), but I suspect it’s the reason he’s taking a break.
I’ve never met @dansup but I know he’s contributed so much to the Fediverse and OSS communities. I am still a newb myself (Twexit era). But - for the good of the OSS community - would it be too much to ask we show some respect for the pioneers who got us here?
Without good folks like Dan doing loads of work in the Fediverse, we don’t have anything. The people issuing death threats and the like to Dan and others should be banished.
Update:
Thanks to everyone who reached out, fediDB.org and fediverse.info will remain online going forward.
I’m not going anywhere either, though I think I need a break from the fediverse for a few days.
Thank you for the updates.
I don’t agree with having a conversation under NDA with anyone, but I’m also not a platform creator on the Fedi and I don’t think attacking folks is ever helpful.
I don’t get how the debate around federation with a platform that hasn’t even launched yet got so virulent.
It’s a combination of:
- people hate Facebook and don’t want them anywhere near the fediverse and
- secret talks with NDAs never foretell good things.
Meta’s reputation most certainly precedes them here, and they’re not a company known for politely co-existing with others but rather for stomping in, and taking what they want and packaging it and selling it.
IMO people have a reasonable basis for reacting strongly (though it’s 2023 and the ‘hyperbolic over-reaction’ is the required thing online it seems).
I don’t know why everyone is so upset about the NDA thing… It’s such a standard business practice. Whenever I (a mid tier infra engineer at a mid sized software company) needed to talk to a vendor, get a product demo/consultation, get support on a licensed application, etc… We either sent an NDA to that company or bad one on file already with them. Nobody discusses internal processes, policies or roadmaps with an outside contact without an NDA first. It’s literally just a standard business practice.
It could be nefarious, since it’s meta afterall, but I wouldn’t be shocked if there’s thousands of people/companies who have standing NDAs with meta just so they could come on campus and demo their product to some team
I don’t want to recap the FediDrama here (drama recaps have a way of becoming drama themselves), but I suspect it’s the reason he’s taking a break.
to be clear for those not in the loop, this would be the thing going around about Meta/Facebook and NDAs, correct?
For someone who is not in the loop: where could I find what happened. I need some context for this.
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