@feditips Important topic! I’ll try to write a blog response later to do it justice, but in short:

I support Mastodon’s move here. The risks you mention just aren’t the same with open source software.

If this change led to Mastodon having 100 million users this year, that’d still be a net positive for the fediverse and the open web, in spite of Mastodon’s non-ideal outsize influence.

At the slightest hint of bad practice on Mastodon’s end, we could switch clients, move, or fork.