@yonabee that's what I'm always saying! when masto was starting to get attention from twitter's collapse every article was treating eugen like the zuckerberg or dorsey of the fediverse, because under capitalism the only story we know is that of the 'great man'
but the fediverse wasn't created by eugen. heck, even the best parts of mastodon weren't made by him. he's frankly stood in the way of a lot of the great work that made this place so much better than twitter to begin with