> I don't know why Mastodon is hyped up so much Among tech-folk, it's hyped up because it's federated, with the hope that if it succeeds it brings us back to t

> I don't know why Mastodon is hyped up so much Among tech-folk, it's hyped up because it's federated, with the hope that if it succeeds it brings us back to the original design of internet services like E-mail and Usenet where everything isn't centralized and owned by a single corporation where you have to live by the whims of it's advertisers. > they can read your DMs as they are not encrypted I have yet to send or receive a DM on Mastodon, I'm not even sure how you do it. As long as you know this fact, just don't send sensitive info in DMs? It's not a core feature of the platform so I don't understand why it's looked at as such a deal-breaker. > they can kick you off the server if you write anything the server operator does not agree with But, with Mastodon, you can just join another server with different rules if that happens. On Twitter, if you offend Elon, he kicks you off and now you have no recourse. Mastodon is strictly better in this regard.