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To those that frame an issue related to mastodon around a single person, namly @Gargron
I'll make this clear from the start. It's about power dynamics rather then a single person. And those dynamics are aplied through multible persons behaving within the frame it defines.

Eugen, from what I can judge, has been very open to the fact that he's leading the project called #mastodon. Openly and honesty. That means being responsible for the desicions that are being made, but also being the one that has the final say, always. People should have the freedom of having control over their own labor as long it's not enforcing opression. Those that joined mastodon's development, I believe, voluntarly accepted Eugen as the authority for final decisions. This indeed, as always when decision making process are designed like this, come with the cost of exclusion/opression of opinions/others.
But it isn't really forced upon anyone since it is freesoftware that can be forked anytime under the usage of a different desicion making process and that you joined voluntarly while there've been projects that offerd different aproachs to make decisions.

So I guess the point is, any critic you form towards Gargron being the leader, you have to question yourself why you'd joined voluntarly while having other options.
I guess we all agree, that everyone should be given the possibilty of maintaining a resperitory if they desire so. Thought it shouldn't be messured on their success if they should be given this possiblity or not.

It is the structure some of you disagree with. It is about the power dynamics that form, when we're devided between privilidged and unprivilidged. It is when there is no space for decision forming behond the status quo and it's current legitimated decision making format.

What ever you choose from where you're now, be aware of what you actually want and try to not reproduce patterns that left you disapointed last time.
Aplying those patterns again, will have similar results, latest in the long run.

If you're able to reason your disapointment and explain why you took a specific other aproach, I'm able to tell you where you're reusing patterns that lead to your disappointment in the first place.
(maybe not, but you still can try me.)

#forkofftogether #forkofffeedback
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