Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) on Nostr: People will say that technology can't solve social issues and programmers often err ...

People will say that technology can't solve social issues and programmers often err in thinking they can. And I understand that.

At the same time, as we’ve *clearly* seen in the stark differences between commercial social media and indie-run fediverse, sometimes the way software technology is designed, built, and deployed has a *huge* impact on the kinds of social structures, norms, and expectations which are in vogue.

Put another way: if GitHub is the “Facebook” of forges…what's the Mastodon?