In a sense Mastodon reminds of the very early stages of Twitter, where there was mostly no toxicity and people were mostly kind and willing to participate in ci

In a sense Mastodon reminds of the very early stages of Twitter, where there was mostly no toxicity and people were mostly kind and willing to participate in civilized discussions. Hopefully this will continue that way for longer time, given the get-popular-quick schemes that worked on Twitter don't tend to work in Mastodon. But be careful of the server you choose. I submitted this some days ago to see what people think, albeit it got no traction, so I'll put again here just in case: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/mastodon2.html https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/mastodon2.html If switching servers is not made painless and straightforward, we'll end up having a single, mostly trusted, mostly centralized server (whatever that happens to end up being), because nobody wants to see themselves in the situation of losing their accounts on a server that seemed to be trustworthy. And also nobody wants to put on themselves the burden of having to make a full research on the viability of each and every potential server that they might want to use, that's something that shouldn't be a problem solved by individual users, but a problem solved by the service itself, somehow. A Covenant is far from enough.