siderea, 11 months ago

Dear Mastodoners,

I know a lot of you want all decent people of good intent to leave Twitter and come to the Fediverse instead. (If you are not such a person, this message is not to your address.)

I've been noticing a lot of you quoting the recent Graniaud piece (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/03/twitter-conservative-media-elon-musk-ron-desantis), the bit that says "...Why is anyone who considers themselves to have liberal values still on it? Ego is probably the main answer to that question. ..."

And I know a lot of you - in many cases, the exact same people - feel very strongly that Mastodon, if not the whole Fediverse, is not a place for commercial activity, and that businesses should not be welcome here. Not big brands, not not small businesses, not celebrities, not influencers, not any of it.

Here's the problem:

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