UPDATE 3: CTO Jimmy (@jsecretan) says "We have paused everything related to our Fediverse ingestion for now and we are removing everything ingested. To be honest, the extreme negative reaction was a surprise to me, as I thought interaction between disparate systems was the entire point, but clearly we didn't navigate the culture correctly." - https://app.heymaven.com/discover/1190898
And @deadsuperhero wrote an article mostly from this thread for @wedistribute.org now live at https://wedistribute.org/2024/06/maven-mastodon-posts/