Brutkey

FediThing :progress_pride:
@FediThing@social.chinwag.org

We need to talk about Mastodon gGmbH. They are the main developers of Mastodon's server software & official mobile apps, they own mastodon.social and Mastodon's trademarks. Their behaviour is inexplicably going in two totally opposite directions.

A couple of years ago they started promoting mastodon.social from the official apps while hiding other servers, causing their server to grow while other servers shrank. Mastodon.social is currently about 28.7% of the active Fediverse and growing.

For comparison, another major server mas.to is just 1.2% of the active Fediverse. Mastodon.social is about twenty-four times bigger.

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Two screenshots from Mastodon shown side by side. On the left side is the "more replies found" dialogue box which indicates new replies in a thread, allowing people on small servers to see the same number of replies in a thread as people on large servers. This screenshot is captioned "This button is building the Fediverse..." On the right side is a screenshot from Mastodon's official app's front page, which has a large "join mastodon.social" button and below it a less noticeable "pick another server" button. This screenshot is captioned "...this button is destroying the Fediverse."