> Then, users are subject to the despotism of a single person Isn't this basically why people are fleeing twitter? >Since servers tend to be run amateurishly,

> Then, users are subject to the despotism of a single person Isn't this basically why people are fleeing twitter? >Since servers tend to be run amateurishly, they are often abandoned after a while — which is effectively the same as banning everybody; As an example, the admin of mastodon.technology recently closed the server due to personal reasons. He gave everyone a month to migrate. The process was pretty smooth for me. > It doesn't make sense to have a ton of servers if updates from every server will have to be painfully pushed (and saved!) to a ton of other servers. Not all data is sent, this is why not every post ends up in the federated timeline.