The thing is, networks can recover from even big initial fuckups. Mastodon developers could have made a project of interviewing people who wanted to leave Twitter and then building their needs as a roadmap.

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1. Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-May-2023 17:27:03 UTC Chris Trottier

   Later in her post, @kissane addresses this.

   But she doesn’t acknowledge that few open source projects ever see the mass uptick in users that Mastodon had, it’s developed by a small team, and Eugen has spent a lot of time putting out fires and hiring new developers.

   There’s lots of “could haves” but this was the hand that Mastodon was dealt.