Doubly annoying considering the forum. I know that HN is typically pessimistic but it'll never stop confusing me that a forum from YCombinator /rejects/ change and innovation. Irony, is that the word?

Consider how many people here may be invested, financially and ideologically, in maintaining the status quo or suppressing interest in potential competition. For better or worse, the "Hacker" in Hacker News refers as much to capitalism as software.

That's very true actually, and I'll admit to being naive enough to not having considered that.

Such moral wording you've got there.. "faith", "spirit", "Belief"..

Mastodon is doing fairly fine, but it does have its problems. More will be discovered along the way.