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Sure, you can be happy that they donated money to a cause. But billionaires are the reason donations and philanthropy are necessary in the first place. You don’t become a billionaire unless you’re doing unethical shit and/or exploiting a lot of people (there’s inheritance, but that’s another problematic topic altogether).

My point is don’t hate the player, hate the game.

Some players have enough wealth to make the rules of the game. So I have to disagree.

This hurts so much because it’s my life :(

Okay, let me specify: You said “Meta isn’t even thinking about the fediverse at this point […]” which is demonstrably false. They reached out, so they’re thinking about it.

If that was the case they wouldn’t have reached out to Mastodon instance owners a while ago before the launch.

It’s not about any business model. It’s about killing competition. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Ironically, had the titanic hit the iceberg straight on it probably would have survived. Swerving at the very last moment was what made it sink.