understanding the money flows and their influence on the direction of the business/non-profit/managing entity - are really really important here (and non-trivia

understanding the money flows and their influence on the direction of the business/non-profit/managing entity - are really really important here (and non-trivial imho). The money flows that direct mastadon's development and subsequent proliferation could be very good for its competitive edge (vis-a-vis twitter) or they could land it right in the same "outrage" territory as twitter. If they don't really have a good set of hypotheses on how twitter ended up where it did, they won't be able to test solutions that solve for those. Its really hard to say what will happen from our current perspective and at this point in time. I hope the mastadon maintainers are developing a strategy to keep it in the problem-solving territory they desire.