I see a lot of the drama that is happening between people of color on the platform and the mastodon dev team. I feel like I need any to help, but I'm not exactly sure the best way to do that. I'm more wary of making things worse tbh.

But I feel like there are two important things that feel clear to me. I want to say it out loud and have people either correct me or help me understand better.

Could we have better moderation today if they had committed to working on it a year or more ago? Sure, maybe. But at this stage, it's going to take a lot of work to get there. And the core team is underfunded. To me that means asking them to engage with this issue isn't actually a good use of energy. Whether they are aligned with our requests or not, they just can't do what is needed.

@timbray @blogdiva funny how it's often people who aren't paying any money who are the loudest.

@jenniferplusplus @Seirdy @thisismissem @laurenshof @erlend I mostly agree with this take. I think core mastodon decision-makers are treating this as if it's a product company, and that's just not what this is. Fundamental misunderstanding of what the opportunity is here in my opinion.

FWIW, I care less about the actual decision to hire one iOS engineer. If that's the level of money they have to play around with, it's not all that meaningful in the wider scheme of things.