I'm very happy to see so many of my colleagues in #journalism making the jump to Mastodon and the fediverse. Our industry has been at the mercy of Facebook, Google, and Twitter, all of which benefited from the work of journalists without paying them or their publications. The fediverse starts to undo that.
More importantly: every single journalist I know has been targeted for online harassment because of their work. Twitter and Facebook profited from those attacks just as much as they did from those journalists' stories. Meanwhile, most publications still do not take online harassment seriously, even as their employees are threatened on a daily basis.
There are still bad actors on the fediverse, but the individual moderation tools and the tireless work of the community and admins make this a far better place.
And most importantly, no company is profiting from weaponized hatred on the fediverse.