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What are you suggesting? That the money donated to Mastodon not be used on Mastodon?
The money wasn't donated yet. This is their stated goal.
Yes, I am saying that we would be better off by having this money put somewhere else.
I get the notion, however social networks do have an inordinate effect populations and how they think. Spending 5M€ on say, poor communities would help those poor communities (short or long term, dunno), but they could still be influenced by a shoddy social network (or multiple). Whether that sum effect is positive or not is debatable.
It's very difficult to make a judgement on utility of such a (comparatively) small sum and its target.
To be honest, I'm much more concerned about how people spend their money when they go shopping: buying non fair-trade goods like chocolate, clothes, coffee, phones, and so on, where they spend sums orders of a magnitude larger than a paltry 5-10€/month on mastodon.