This shit demonstrates exactly some of the arguments I've been making here. The thing that I want to direct everyone to is this:
"There is a fundamentally diferent culture here that you will need to understand or accept or you won't make it here... This is a world of builders.. you won't get anywhere by publishing social thesis or critiques."
https://soapbox.midwaytrades.com/objects/0c9b5e2b-1673-408d-acef-e6e7024ff3f1
The post, and the poster's replies, indicate one of my broader critiques: the "open source world of builders" that the OP points to is one that, by OP's own admission, does not care about the social critique of the things they are building.
That is, in a "world of builders" the social organization of what is being built is less important than actually being able to build something. To the extent that the social is less relevant, this is that I "need to understand."
Here, then, is a problem: insofar as this is a general attitude among members of the fediverse, it is predictable that folks are quick to say "build your own instance" as a solution BECAUSE it is an engineering solution presenting within the context of a "builder's world," but this ignores the fact that people have to LIVE in the world built by... uh... builders?
This points back to something that I've been saying and, honestly, is something that mastodonians of color have been saying: you cannot engineer a solution to a cultural problem. And, insofar as OP makes clear the cultural context of the cultural problems facing Mastodon, I actually agree with them.
Mastodon is a world of builders, but the myopic focus on the ability to build ignores what is being built and who is supposed to "live" there.
@shengokai You can not legislate morality