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@nellie_m @mastodonmigration @aurynn @aral

"Please, when you mention Mammoth, do also mention that they
a) require you to sign up on their instance when you use it."

That's simply not true. I did use it on my own instance for testing.

(I'm not defending Mammoth, but I think misinformation and misrepresentation won't help anyone)

Aral Balkan

@michael See mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109942327

(Also: we know how VC works even that ability to sign in to existing instances can be changed later. The only time you can stop a VC-funded startup is at the very start, before they have traction. Let’s not make the same mistake again. Perhaps I really need to write something more substantial about this given that folks are still giving them the benefit of the doubt.)

@nellie_m@home.social @mastodonmigration @aurynn

@aral

Yeah, I think that matches my observations.

What I would say is that I'm aware of the difficulty surrounding Mammoth. But I think it's important we phrase our criticism carefully and accurately, and that phrase was definitely not accurate.

I'm still not entirely sure where I stand overall in this question. I'm overall a pragmatist rather than an idealist, and so whilst I'm weary of centralisation and of the involvement of VC, I must say that the onboarding experience in the fediverse is pretty poor at the moment, and I think something needs to be done about this, but I don't know what that is.

Definitely not a fan of fediblocking entire instances over this though. Don't think this is helpful in this context...

@nellie_m @mastodonmigration @aurynn

@aral please do write the more substantial piece, the number of people, especially admins, who are willing to let VC infect the fediverse is deeply worrying. @michael @nellie_m @mastodonmigration

@aral Please do! As you said previously, the whole point is quick scale, grow users, sell. Their whole biz model depends on centralization!