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It's a bit strange that the Mastodon founder is promoting a corporate rival to his application. Meta has a sketchy history they can't really hide with an open source application.
He didn't create mastodon with the dream of destroying corporate social networks, but instead because he had a bright-eyed dream that everyone could create their own social network experience. I think he's naive about Facebook's intentions, but I think to his mind, a big tech company adopting the technology to interact with Mastodon is what he always wanted