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I'm truly amazed by the Mastodon team. After several years, they keep delivering major features on a regular basis.

Even on my own projects, on a much smaller scale, I've never been able to go that fast.

I think we can namedrop Gargron and Thib at this point. The amount of work they put into this is staggering.

Hmm, I'm not sure if it says something about me or the current state of tech that I find "regularly adding major features" to be a bad thing. Not that I really know (or care) anything about Mastodon or its problem space in particular, it's just the concept itself that makes me weary. I'd rather have something simple and stable and understandable. Maybe that's why I still use IRC.

For a project as young as Mastodon, major features are still necessary to meet people's expectations of a modern social network user experience.

But you can use IRC: https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoMastodon

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