A Man Behind Mastodon Built It for This Moment

> A lot of requests don’t make sense, because people have not yet learned about the platform. Like “Why isn’t Mastodon a single server?” We're not going to jump on the opportunity to undo all of the decentralization.

The word "decentralization" pops up a lot connection with Mastodon. Yet it's not always clear to what end.

One selling point appears to be moderation, something the article echoes. Distributing the moderation function gives users choices about the incidental messages they'll be exposed to. They choose the server whose moderation policies they agree with. In principle this breaks the difficult global moderation problem into many smaller moderation problems.

But is that really what people are "hiring" something like Twitter for? Isn't one of the driving factors to be able to distribute a message as widely as possible? Doesn't the fediverse ultimately lead to people becoming more isolated than they already were?

My gut feel after using M web for a few hours is that its good enough.

I think a lot of our systems are overly centralized.. which makes them vulnerable to the whims of rich individuals or governments.

Now is a great time to make the move, given recent churn on Twitter.