I was just thinking about this earlier today with respect to Mastodon and federated social networks. As someone who has been very actively using Mastodon for years, it is frustrating — painfully frustrating — when people criticise it in the abstract. "It will never work" then why is it working? "People won't know how to sign up" it is easier to sign up than any the average email service - blah, blah, blah - actually it's not worth anyone's time answering these questions. Just use it. _use it_ for goodness sake.