Who is this Mastodon CEO you think is controlling Mastodon's culture? Rochko? He doesn't have any influence on what posts anyone sees on Mastodon. Mastodon doesn't have a central server or moderation team, and their algorithms are too dumb to instill a culture or even present a single unified culture. I see posts from people I follow, and people they boost, that's it. It's like a step removed from RSS feeds.

[–] otl@hachyderm.io 4 points 8 months ago

@Zaktor There is some influence. Two things that come to mind:

* default post length limit (500 characters)
* how the server renders “Page” ActivityPub objects (e.g. Lemmy posts)

For example, many comments made in this thread could not be made from a Mastodon server. All Lemmy posts show as just a title and link with a blank body. These application behaviours have a direct influence on what types of conversations take place by people from Mastodon servers.

@fediverse

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Culture is often nebulous and subtle. You’re straw-manning my statement as something about a monolithic culture governed by a single person. I was pretty clear about the subtleties of this. Otherwise, you’ve simplified the nature of mastodon the technology and brand and missed the ways in which a culture can attach to that nature especially around issues of privacy and consent.