As things currently look, I think Mastodon as a piece of software is holding back the Fediverse more than it's helping.
It is an impressive piece of software and I totally understand the limitations the project works under (very small budget, very high responsibility for stability given it's market dominance and number of users) but I think it's use right now should probably just to keep this level of functionality intact while something new comes along.
And this isn't just about Ruby (even though IMO Ruby is kind of a dying language and that severely limits the amount of people who can and will contribute). It is more about being able to test new ideas and approaches quickly for smaller populations to see how they feel.
Basically I think an ActivityPub Base Platform that comes with the fundamental structures and protocols implemented (that also accepts the Mastodon API to be as compatible as possible with clients and such) that can easily extended by Plugins would serve us better not only right now but for the long term.
Fediverse is to stale - which is always a potential when trying to only use open standards etc. - but I think it would be important to get out of that rut. Enable communities to actually add things to the service and play around with it without having to fully fork the original code base.
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