It’s in development… Federation is expected to be done in the coming weeks. The team is very small and is dealing with a lot of things at the same time.
But nobody asks that you join now, just wait for federation if that’s what you care about.
Mainly because I doubt it’ll be a couple of weeks. Saving the hard problems to the end is not how you do software engineering and this reeks of people who don’t know what they are doing.
Also, I kinda want this to fail. Mastodon is the right way forward from the twitter debacle.
I don’t understand. Don’t you want people to have choices? Some will want to move to activitypub, others to atproto. Some will stay on centralized platforms. Why would you want another option to fail?
And you may want to look at the team and how they justify their choices before arriving to a conclusion.
Mastodon doesn't need to scale. Scale is about maximizing revenue with dark patterns, SEO, clickbait, propaganda and dopamine loops. Scale is the cesspool of human hatred and stupidity. Scale is you and your data being the product. Scale is a cancer Mastodon and other decentralized networks can hopefully avoid.
The only thing Mastodon has to do to "win" is continue to exist and thrive in its niche while the lumbering,, centralized corporate social media dinosaurs choke to death around them.
Perhaps the aim is the idea of federation but in practice have everyone sign up to server they control.