The Fediverse might be getting their own mashups of Tiktok, YouTube, and Vine sooner than anyone thought, thanks to the work of one prolific dev spearheading an effort. The best part? He’s helping other projects in the space, too.
i think he stopped working on groups because mastodon officially announced groups shortly after gis preview. not that they have delivered it yet (release target, q4 2023 - an no word for 2 years now).
He’s periodically shown updates on it. From talking to him, there are a number of challenges:
- Being blocked by other features, like a UI refactor
- Compatibility with other existing implementations (less of a problem now with the Group Federation FEP by @nutomic@lemmy.ml)
- Wanting to include Private Groups
- Bringing in moderation, assignment, and delegation tools for groups.
- Dealing with unrelated issues pertaining to the day-to-day maintenance
- Needing to break out new experiments in a branch to see how well an idea actually works
I think the biggest thing is that he probably does spread himself pretty thin at times, and is still learning how to rely on community pull requests and contributions. It can be a really hard thing to do, especially if you feel the need to provide the creative direction for how things ought to work.
