[shawnee_]

> They failed the test and without this key innovation performing to spec I no longer have faith that Mastadon is any more than a technically complicated open source Twitter.

Maybe instead the question you should be asking is: who has the incentive to undertake such a resource-intensive attack? This seemed more a response targeted at Wil for promoting his logic regarding leaving Twitter, targeted at him directly after he reasoned why the good people of the world need to Quit Twitter.

Making new users feel unwelcome on Mastadon is, unfortunately, the easiest path for them to fend off the competitor. It would not surprise me in the least to discover this attack was, in fact, coordinated by some entity with strong ties to Twitter. Of course the attackers want it to look like what instead happened was a "famous person verification" problem within the Fediverse; bad and negative press about Mastadon are _exactly_ what the attackers wanted here. And, unfortunately, it worked. There is always financial motive.

[viraptor]

Do you have anything to support that speculation? We have terrible people on all social media platforms. The simplest explanation is that there are genuinely terrible little on mastodon.

[PuercoPop]

They do, the reasoning they already put forth.

On the other hand your explanation is no explanation at all. No possible motivation. Just "people are bad everywhere m'kay".

[viraptor]

They did show their theory. They didn't really show supporting facts. If you claim "it's caused by something different than we see everywhere else" you really need more than "it's true, because money".