#[0] To emphasize, and I really shouldn't have to explain this, doubly so because what I wrote was addressed to a specific person, but being able to modify Mastodon's source code is part of your fundamental rights, and nobody is going to sue you for it.
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#[0] I was responding to a specific person who claimed that they were feeling, due to a lack of customization options in the software, like an unpaid SRE for Mastodon gGmbH, and I pointed out that we do not benefit from them while they do benefit from us.