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Mastodon is also somewhat hostile towards new users. Significant swaths of it treat this shared public network as a small private chatroom, and get cranky when September stretches on too long.
I still remember being constantly berated for not using alt tags and not using their special language.
You can't get pissy about your little static/stagnant/(software)beta community changing if your goal is to gain mass adoption.
Of course this is anecdotal but I haven’t seen that - most of the disdain I’ve seen is towards new instance admins who don’t take proper steps to moderate stuff or prevent spammy signups.