@wonkothesane @taylorlorenz I agree with everything you said except the very last sentence. I would be very surprised if Twitter survives to the end of the year given what I have seen so far, and most experts I have been following on the matter have been of a similar opinion.

On the other hand, Mastodon --- and the wider Fediverse --- is indeed quite heterogenous. There are science-focused servers, furry focused servers, NSFW servers, servers that are focused on *very* niche things (dolphin.town) ... I could go on all day.