You make a lot of good points, but you fail to realise that your points make "failure" or "success" relative to the way people were using the platform. For a T

You make a lot of good points, but you fail to realise that your points make "failure" or "success" relative to the way people were using the platform. For a Twitter user that spends most of their effort posting low-quality content to countless followers, then your points 1 and 2 apply and a move to Mastodon would likely "fail". For a Twitter user that spends most of their effort infinite-scrolling through an algo-manicured feed of content, then they'll be sorely disappointed as _you_ have to manicure your own feed by finding people and hashtags to follow. This is a variant of your point 2. For those Twitter users that actively build little communities, where the connections matter, the content to/from each other matters, and they care little for the algo-feed, then Mastodon can, and has, been very successful. I know because I'm one of those, and the thematic server I've joined as a lot of like-minded members. We've created a lovely little community which I really enjoy, to the point of donating to the server admin to scale his infrastructure. But yes, this requires effort. For me the reward is worth it.