Well, that's my new favurite description of that scene.
Kichae
Ad soon as they go public, their product is their share price. And even before then, since most growing private companies seek out private investment long before going public.
Yeah, there's plenty about how Mastodon frames itself and its features that are frustrating. That "easy mobility" requiring an 80 step process that involves downloading and re-uploading a bunch of files kind of anchors you for seeing how disconnected some developers are from the user expectations they set.
But does there?
This comes back to what federation and "the fediverse" is, and why trying to hide its nature is harming it.
No one expects their Facebook post history to follow them to Reddit, or to a forum, or to Lemmy, because they're different websites. Just as no one expected their Twitter history to come with them to Mastodon.
But because it's framed as "Mastodon" and not "social.website.com" the expectations are different.
Oh fun! Another website for me to blacklist.
Yaaaaas! This is what the Fediverse is all about! Niche websites that broadcast to the whole web, not big central hubs that don't need to broadcast at all.
List the LAP communities in the sidebar we can easily find them from our home instances, if you could.
Federation isn't a mess, it's just... messier. And too many federated services do their damnedest to hide that they function differently, meaning people treat them like they're perfect drop-in replacements.
It results in a lot of questions about "Why can't I ____?" and answers of the "Because this doesn't work that way" variety.
Like, look at Mastodon. It bends over backwards to hide the fact that it's 10,000 different websites. The result is that people could not understand what the big deal was, nor why it wasn't as easy to see everything from some other website as easily as they could from a single website that everyone was using.
This further led to centralization of the Mastodon ecosystem, which... I mean, at that point, you're just abandoning the central concept.
we have an actual leftist party that has legitimate chances
We do not. The NDP may have actual leftists among its membership, but it hasn't been a leftist party in 2 decades now. It's a neo-liberal party focused on courting an urban professional class and denying any and all claims that they are "socialist".
"Just use this thing that you've already rejected for X, Y, and Z."
"Have they fixed X, Y, and Z yet?"
" Fuck you for asking."
The point of federation is to publicly share what you want to publicly share, not to have unfettered access to whatever you want to consume.
They've not handled the transition from conservatives-on-bikes to protestors-in-suits very well.
The term that's causing my alarm bells to ring here is "Canadian interests". The interests of the state often do not align with the interests of the people, and it's not terribly difficult to tie behaviour that interferes with the state's interests to the benefit of foreign entities that may oppose the state.