I think postmortem, when we hear the names #Mastodon and perhaps #ActivityPub, we'll see it as one of the greatest fumbles of the web.

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It's not (just) the onboarding fiasco. Mastodon servers had something that #Meta could never replicate— real community.

We didn't need the corporate web to validate us. Our presence here could've been a beacon for what the web could be if you took VC money out of the equation. We could've saved people that way.

I don't know if this place ever gets that back.