A large corporate shopping mall settles in a nice neighborhood with small local run shops and community centers. The new shopping mall says ‘if we settle here, more people will come, and you all will benefit’. A few years later all small shops are bankrupt and the community is destroyed. What remains is a barren corporate landscape.
I don’t think the care about mastodon users other than those unhappy Twitter exiles. Mastodon thinks it’s more important than it is.
They want the Twitter userbase. Activitypub presents a front that they’re playing nice - no walled garden right?