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How Ruby Went Off the Rails
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There's already alternative implementations, with somewhat different featuresets:
Having said that, frankly, I doubt that the Ruby ecosystem will fall apart from this. There's too many non-volunteers whose wage depends on Ruby to keep going...
So far we only have a desire to be on mastodon or gotosocial (if we ever figure out how to run our own server).
We are aware that there is other microblogging software on fedi, but we are happy on mastodon for now, as the people we want to be around are explicitly on servers running mastodon.
We can hope mastodon will do a rewrite, but yes, even if not we sadly agree. Still they should very much consider it, if only as a matter of principal.