@lkanies @thisismissem @julian @hongminhee @pfefferle and I think this reasoning has been explained to you in some detail by several people. Hopefully you can see that
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Relaxing treatment of non-notes by Mastodon@lkanies @thisismissem @julian @hongminhee @pfefferle it is permissionless innovation: In your own fork.
A pull request is a proposal to make changes upstream, if you want to do that then thereβs nothing permissionless about it and never has been
Modern OSS maintainers are remarkably polite about it, too! Have a read through Linus Torvalds old mailing lists if you want to see how OSS really started. Big contrast
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Relaxing treatment of non-notes by Mastodon@thisismissem @lkanies @julian @hongminhee @pfefferle yup, 100% β You can't just walk into someone's house and start re-arranging the furniture and expect them to be pleased.
Always good to start with bugfixes & smaller things to learn the codebase, and for maintainers to get to know+trust you.
Once you've showed that you're going to stick around, you generally get more freedom and approval to take on larger things.
Source: Years of contributing to WordPress, long before Ghost
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Relaxing treatment of non-notes by Mastodon@julian @thisismissem @hongminhee @pfefferle Separately, Mastodon are doing great work and have a non-stop barrage of feature requests (often: demands) from all sides, and everyone is convinced theirs is the most critical (ofc).
We've chatted to them about long-form, and they're well aware
They don't need importance impressed upon them, but they certainly do need funding and PRs β so I think you're very much on the right track there!
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Relaxing treatment of non-notes by Mastodon@julian @thisismissem @hongminhee @pfefferle Our primary view for longform content (articles) is an inbox/reader list of posts - where it makes sense to show a preview (as inboxes and readers do) before opening. Preview requires an object, so as:Note felt like the most logical object to fit there. We're mainly using this for Ghost<>Ghost atm.