I don't think Mastodon can replace Twitter. Its use case is obviously different due to the federation, good and bad. Federation means that your moderators have

I don't think Mastodon can replace Twitter. Its use case is obviously different due to the federation, good and bad. Federation means that your moderators have control of the discussion. That makes it closer to Reddit than Twitter, where moderators set up their own rules for each Mastodon instance. For example: https://mastodon.gamedev.place https://mastodon.gamedev.place is a game-design focused Mastodon instance, akin to /r/programming can only talk about programming related things (or you get banned and/or moderated out), game developers are hanging out here to talk about game-design issues. If you want to talk about other issues (general stuff, politics, whatever), you need to reach out to the federation and find a home for your words. ------------- When #RedditBlackout reached full steam, I realized this. Federation is more of a Reddit thing than any other social media that has come before. Between volunteer moderators, and the "subreddit" feel of Federation (be it PeerTube, Mastodon, or Lemmy), its more obviously a Reddit replacement than anything else. --------- That being said: a large instance like "https://mastodon.world https://mastodon.world", with a moderation style of general-topic is closer to a Twitter replacement.