This is the irony inherent in the desire of many to plant a flag on something, anything, and call it Twitter 2.0. Many of the negative aspects of Twitter that

This is the irony inherent in the desire of many to plant a flag on something, anything, and call it Twitter 2.0. Many of the negative aspects of Twitter that drove people away (incl pre-Musk era) are repeated here. The ownership is centralized; why would a protocol need a CEO? The network will lean towards centralization as well; let's be real, the default instance will be 1000x bigger than any federated offshoot). It's frankly unfortunate to see so many of the tech bloggerati trying Mastodon, an actually decentralized solution without a for-profit mission, and then bandwagoning on to this new thing under the guise of wanting some lols, because Mastodon is too boring, they are no slapfights over celebrity/social media nonsense.