> A lot of recent arrivals want Twitter without the corporate ownership Which you can have on mastodon.social. Go sign up there if you want a non-corporate Twi

> A lot of recent arrivals want Twitter without the corporate ownership Which you can have on mastodon.social. Go sign up there if you want a non-corporate Twitter. Signups should be open now. Even if 90% of users are on a single instance, having a federated protocol matters as an insurance policy. If Oracle somehow assumes control of mastodon.social next year, everyone can move to some other instance and retain their connections. Furthermore, if someone else creates a better vision of social networking in the future, users will be able to switch one-by-one and continue communicating across platforms. There won't be a built-in imbalance due to the incumbent's network effect.