@deviantollam The answer is that you are absolutely correct. The problem is that the "creator" of mastodon hosting his own enourmous and painfully overcrowded instance mastodon.social, which of course goes against the idea of decentralization. This is what that post is talking about.

@deviantollam It's been pointed out a lot that the focus on that guy is absolutely nonsensical. Of all server admins, he is getting by far the most money – and that's not just via patreon, but also literally via state funding. And it's bullshit that people focus on him so much. Support your local instance admin instead.

@deviantollam The post feels even more absurd when you consider that it's not posted on a mastodon instance, but on a pleroma instance, so the mastodon developer and his nonprofit have very little to do with it. So: ???

@deviantollam Some instances have even muted (not showing up in the federated timeline) any posts from mastodon.social, because that instance is such a mess and so overcroweded and hard to moderate. The solution is not donating more money but closing signups so not even more people sign up for this de facto central instance. But sadly, the mastodon developer has lost focus a bit by now and is doing his own thing :/