Sure, you can be happy that they donated money to a cause. But billionaires are the reason donations and philanthropy are necessary in the first place. You don't become a billionaire unless you're doing unethical shit and/or exploiting a lot of people (there's inheritance, but that's another problematic topic altogether).

My point is don’t hate the player, hate the game.

Some players have enough wealth to make the rules of the game. So I have to disagree.

(who’s background is developing gambling games)

Sure, he worked in the sector, but that's because he couldn't find better jobs. What you're implying here is really unfair, especially considering there aren't even any microtransactions in the game. As far as I know, he just made a game that he felt was fun.

This hurts so much because it's my life :(

Okay, let me specify: You said "Meta isn’t even thinking about the fediverse at this point [...]" which is demonstrably false. They reached out, so they're thinking about it.

If that was the case they wouldn't have reached out to Mastodon instance owners a while ago before the launch.

It's the average temperature across the globe as far as I know. And it has never been this high before.

It's not about any business model. It's about killing competition. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Or they left something on reddits servers so reddit will know.

Ironically, had the titanic hit the iceberg straight on it probably would have survived. Swerving at the very last moment was what made it sink.