Austin (=> @#Mammoth updated. The good thing is they went open source. The bad thing is they tried to make me auto-follow their account (I did get visual prompts in their new features screen but I wasn't able to unfollow on that screen), and they got a Threads-ish icon. Their #SmartLists feature appears concerning: it sends your handle to their official instance moth.social, which is using a Mastodon fork serving the "Smart Lists" feature. One can reasonably see how this undermines #decentralization ...
Now #Mammoth has always been interesting in making users not feel the #federation aspect. On one hand, the app fetching stats/replies of posts directly from the origin instance can be convenient. On the other hand, it nudges new users to their own instance, and there's the #SmartLists: browsing the Lists and viewing the List feed all happen on moth.social regardless of what instance you're on. Frankly, they can learn from https://a.gup.pe and make auto-boost accounts instead...