@inkorrupt@dresden.network mastodon.social is a bloated instance. I agree with that. But that doesn't mean you should accuse the people who work on Mastodon itself of "fxxking up the spirit of federation". Presumably your instance uses their work too. You can support a decentralised fediverse without poo-pooing the efforts of other people. No one here is your enemy. You and the Mastodon team have similar goals. So probably you can express your disagreement without being combative. As for you 'paying too much'. What are you talking about? You don't seem to be the admin of your instance, so probably you aren't paying directly for the server upkeep. If you're talking about donations, and you think you're paying too much, you can simply choose to donate less. You don't really need to announce that to the world on an official post from the Mastodon team.