"People have long been angry at Gargron for sucking most of the Fediverse attention towards Mastodon through no particular fault of their own, and I believe it’s about to change, and not necessarily for the better."

But wait:

"...we are seeing that the system is not federating correctly due to certificate errors on Threads side. We understand that they are working to resolve those certification issues with assistance from the Mastodon core team"

"...they are working to resolve those certification issues with assistance from the Mastodon core team"

Here: https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2023/12/23/threads-update/

I don't know about you, but I don't like the sound of that, one bit

cc @heluecht

I agree

@heluecht@pirati.ca

Actually Gargamel has been hostile to trust & safety changes submitted by the queer community for over 5 years now, railroaded full text indexing, and is clearly attempting to carve out a Fediverse fiefdom during the gold rush days. The sooner folks escape Rochko’s Basilisk the better. Eugen is every bit the problematic techbro he appears to be. It’s easy to spot his embrace of “Dictator for Life” from the #BDFL badmeme. Also notable how Garg downplays any responsibility for Benevolence in that blessed arrangement.

Thankfully Fedi is more than Mastodon. We do need more hostile forks of the Mastodon project, though. And probably a reference implementation that G doesn’t control.