The recent drama surrounding the "Join mastodon.social" on the official mastodon app is disappointing.

The code for both mastodon and the app are open source, and people seem to think this will "destroy the fediverse and centralize all users on mastodon.social" meanwhile anyone can run a mastodon instance and migrate their account.

He literally wrote the platform that people are complaining on as if this was a for-profit, closed source entity like Twitter.

Being a BDFL isn't easy, we human 2

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j.r

@dansup I think the main concern that people have is if someone searches for "Mastodon" in the app stores the first app that pops up is the official one, which now uses some weird UX, so most people will also most likely land on mastodon.social. This is in turn bad for the decentralised nature of the network if one instance becomes the main power (for example in terms of moderation policies and what to tolerate or to not accept in the network)

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