@ariadne@treehouse.systems @nova@hachyderm.io Their document (https://github.com/hachyderm/community/blob/main/accounts/corporate-accounts.md) is pretty clear about the intentions:

"If you have been asked to remove your corporate account we ask you to be patient with us as we are currently trying to balance our community as we introduce trust with corporations."

This is absolutely a textbook case of "normalizing corporate presence", and it's just made *worse* by "friends at corporation helping out in exchange for exposure", IMO.

It blurs the lines between the corporate and the personal, creates a corporate dependency, and further allows corporations to encroach upon a community.

Elsewhere in the reply chains, I made a list of corporations which started out as "nice companies" and then grew to become a serious problem.

*Every single one of them* had people defending it because "I know the people working there and they're good people, they're just trying to help". Without exception. It terminated any possibility of criticism or concern.

(I know this because I called out every single one of them early, only to be faced with constant "I'm sure it won't get that bad" and "I know good people there" responses - and ultimately zero action to prevent their harm.)