I find the general negativity towards Mastodon in HN quite intriguing, considering that:

- ActivityPub is basically a two-way RSS (which is the most beloved tech in this community)

- It's open source and you can setup your own server in one afternoon

- No sorting algorithms, no tracking, no ads

- Relatively easy to customize/hack

And to add to this, during this past month I have seen the majority of the infosec, astronomy, psychics, maths, biology, ecology communities migrating to Mastodon and for whatever reason my timeline is currently way more interesting and engaging than what Twitter offered to me.

I'm not a big social network user and I guess that's why I don't understand the sentiment in this comment section, but I do enjoy using Mastodon at the moment and I hope it stays as cool as it is now :)