I'm probably listed among those "10M users" I checked out Mastodon for an hour or so, saw less engagement than Twitter, more of an echo chamber, and a generall

I'm probably listed among those "10M users" I checked out Mastodon for an hour or so, saw less engagement than Twitter, more of an echo chamber, and a generally inferior user experience. Now I don't actively use it. It's sad in some ways, because I think centralised Big Tech (as a general concept) is undesirable. But to break the network effect, alternatives have to be much better. Also I'm concerned about Mastodon shared, curated blocklists. People who express unconventional/inconvenient viewpoints will not be safe on a decentralised network that has anti-free-speech, groupthink authoritarian mechanisms. (Yes, I know I wouldn't be forced to use a shared blocklist on my own Mastodon instance - but the problem is that my instance would be vulnerable to the whims of those who curate shared blocklists).