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In my experience, most of Mastodon's loyalists don't care about a better fedi because they feel growth is more important than safety, which resembles the motivations of any centralized service.

As much as the bitch and moan about how awful centralized services are, they emulate not only the experience of the centralized platforms themselves but the methodologies said platforms use for gaining an audience. They are fundamentally the same despite using different software.

We already have an open web and need a safe web. And many supporters of Mastodon refuse to acknowledge the need for that and even demonize any effort that focuses on anything other than unchecked growth.

This is why we see the same problems in the fedi as we do on any centralized service. That's not a technology problem.