@anna that is also true in the FLOSS space, even in the Fediverse (the obvious difference from Big Tech being the possibility to fork and adapt). but still, Mastodon devs REFUSE year after year to listen to their non-white non-Global-North users when it comes to safety tooling in the software, for example. it is a descentralized federated free and libre open-source network but is still being originated by Global North people, their social notions and limited worldviews, and that is very problematic.