The "official" Mastodon instance, whenever I look at it, seems to just be techbros* pretending to nominally care about decentralisation, but only insofar as they can shill their startup by saying it supports ActivityPub. With that in mind I'm not terribly surprised Mastodon has lived long enough to see itself become the villain, since it seems like none of them really interact with other instances either
(* techbros and people dipping their feet in who don't know about other instances yet, but those folks aren't at fault outside of maybe complaining that it's not exactly like Twitter)
