I’m not disagreeing with you about the issues of centralization. I too walked away from Reddit and paid that cost. My point is that (a) many people have not de

I’m not disagreeing with you about the issues of centralization. I too walked away from Reddit and paid that cost. My point is that (a) many people have not despite the cess pit Reddit and other sites have become, and (b) RSS is inherently incapable of replacing the experience because it’s a pull only mechanism. Mastadon based itself on ActivityPub, not RSS. We’ll see if the long term forces that consolidated and entities Twitter and it’s ilk will do the same to Mastadon instances. Cause I’m still not convinced that the general public is willing to or ready to run their own servers