I'm explicitly calling this out as an excuse that I will not accept.
As an example, I'm saying that the obstacles to making something like starter packs work on Mastodon is not hundreds of millions of dollars.
As another example, I said that BlueSky is winning against Twitter, who has 2 orders of magnitude more resources than them. Because it's not about resources as much as it as about "listen to your own users."
Many of those BlueSky users tried Mastodon first. 🤷🏿♂️