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https://hacktivis.me/articles/Update%20on%20Pleroma%20Maintenance
There's a big rift happening in the #Pleroma and #Soapbox world right now. @lanodan writes about it from his perspective.
The attached screenshot shows what I saw. I personally like Mr Gleason, but this response would not be acceptable in any software project I'd run on my servers. I don't know what happened to make him so angry and hostile.
I know the feedback has been decidedly negative toward his change. But that should have been expected. Anyone that isn't / wasn't running Soapbox's newest develop branch thinks something is broken.
For the record, GNUsocial and its predecessor StatusNet had removed @ names from replies in the default front end for many years now. I would guess 10-12 years, or right around SN 1.0. I think the Qvitter front end added them back (as Twitter still had them at the time). And both Mastodon and Pleroma have them still. https://nu.federati.net/attachment/284703
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I did try to convey to Alex that people disliking how his change affects them is not the same as bullying, but the reaction pictured tells me he doesn't get it.
Anyway, there's that controversy.