The challenge now is diversity, not picking one winner. I’d argue #Mastodon is drifting in the wrong direction - not because what it is doing is wrong, but because balance matters.
Mastodon has become very good at outreach into the #mainstreaming world. That is useful, and it is a valid path. The problem is when one path becomes the whole #Fediverse.
The #openweb was never meant to be one codebase, one culture, one governance model. It grows through diversity of value.
The issue is that Mastodon is now carrying more #NGO thinking, more institutional habits, and more mainstream assumptions. That doesn’t make it bad - but it does mean it is less healthy as the only “native” path.
The answer is not attacking Mastodon. The answer is growing the wider ecosystem: more codebases, more diversity, more grassroots governance, more messy creativity.
A healthy Fediverse needs many roots, not one trunk.
#OMN #4opens #Fediverse #openweb #indymediaback #OGB