I stopped my self hosted mastodon server

I always have been driven by knowledge sharing (open source, open hardware, open science, sci hub) and minimalism. I specially enjoy embedded systems, microcontrollers, ne555 and opamps.

My computer world is fully in the unix world: keep it as simple as possible. Build small things that do it very good and provide interfaces, APIs.

I am a pure evangelist of command line interface, against all those complex ui. i am convinced that cli encourages us to formulate and structure our goals towards machine usage.

I really disagree with interfaces such as ai assistant. This tends to interrupt thinking constructions. I can ask for information but I need to formulate my question correctly, this helps me to confirm that I understand what I look for. Otherwise think again before asking and come back.

Asking good questions means we understand the context, the issue. If we can ask approximate questions, ai assistant will guide us to answers, but my critical issue remains that I do not understand at first.

Sure I can delegate mass data analysis to computers, but that’s really different else as relying for an assistant for any kind of approximate half-built request.

So i’m a much bigger fan of ncurses-like applications than heavy ajax|qt|electron ui frameworks. minimalism permits to focus on what is required and forget about diverting cosmetics (LaTeX vs ms word).

I’m a big supporter of projects such as Gemini against bloated web of 2024.

Having said that, let me come back to mastodon. ) I nerver was interested into using proprietary service such as Facebook or Twitter. So when mastodon arises, I was happy and curious.

ActivityPub is a wonderful protocol for integrations, interoperability. We need such powerful protocols to become very popular and common.

However, while discovering mastodon, I became more and more deceived. Sure it free and opensource software. Sure it is a federated project.

But looks like they re-created bloated heavyweight applications that usually happen in the proprietary world of editors.

I had numerous issues for security updates, puma versions conflicts, ruby, etc… All this to exchange text messages with cat pictures?? …something is wrong here…

I stopped my self-hosted server.

I prefer to build pubs or rooms for secure scuttlebutt social network. It brings interesting different semantics else as usual social network (commercial) service.

I also particpate and encourage mesh radio networks such as meshtastic and nomadnet/reticulum.