> Just wait until some instances get bought out by companies And then what? You can still use Mastodon, you don't need that company's instance in order to send

> Just wait until some instances get bought out by companies And then what? You can still use Mastodon, you don't need that company's instance in order to send a message. Mastodon was designed so that, in this express situation, the entire network does not collapse. Twitter did not anticipate it early enough. People are certainly misplacing their hopes in Mastodon as a Twitter replacement. That's not Mastodon's fault or problem, though. It's a framing device that sets people up for disappointment, and then sends them back to HN/Twitter/Facebook to complain again. Twitter is certainly doing fine, but that's because betting against the intelligence of the average Twitter user is always a winning bet. Who knows though, maybe one day the internet at-large will learn that trusting a private entity with significant cultural presence always ends bad. Maybe once YouTube capsizes.