I am a huge advocate for Mastodon. It is worth remembering that nearly all of the value for the users of a social network comes from other users. Most of Twitte

I am a huge advocate for Mastodon. It is worth remembering that nearly all of the value for the users of a social network comes from other users. Most of Twitter's defining features -- retweets, hashtags, and @ mentions -- were invented not by Twitter's employees, but by its users: https://qz.com/135149/the-first-ever-hashtag-reply-and-retweet-as-twitter-users-invented-them/ https://qz.com/135149/the-first-ever-hashtag-reply-and-retwe... As a result, building services like this in a distributed way a la email seems much more appropriate. Why let Twitter greedily monetize your content?