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So: Apple sets up a server, invites existing non-masto customer base. 99% are nice geeks. 1% are paid shills. Hard to defed people just being enthusiastic.
Ex Twitter users refuse to use self-defence tools. Calamity.
Have I got that about right?
I think that people agree levels of small creator ads. No one wants to be muted or disliked.
@Homebrewandhacking I'd argue the percentages strongly, but you've got the idea.
I'm a firm believer in Edward Abbey's maxim (Growth for the sake of growth is the "ideology" of the cancer cell) and I think we need to think about these things before Mastodon becomes just another Twitter, with ALL its problems - not just the Nazis.
:) Arbitrary numbers for illustrative purposes.
I think maybe too high 
I honestly don't know. What kind of calculation would have to go into it for red team?
I'm on board with growth for its own sake not being good, but D&D used "network externalities" to become a significant cultural force. I feel the values espoused here are good "soft power" ones.
It's still very, very hard to get started here.
@Homebrewandhacking It is hard to get going, and I barely have any suggestions for ways to address the problems - nevermind any solutions.
The only thing I'm certain of is that we need to think very critically about the wider implications for Mastodon of Twitter's collapse.
We're a pleasant, fairly harmonious herd, but the predators are arriving because their previous feeding ground is becoming depleted.
That's true. I certainly see a lot of talk, just incidentally, from moderators talking about this sort of thing.
If you wish to engage subject matter experts than investigation of #MetaFediblock and #Moderation seems like a good plan.
Not all of them are mastobros who tell you to submit github requests and rely on the vastly outnumbered gargron to do all the work. 