Until now I hadn’t appreciated that were very serious structural problems at Twitter. I thought Elon would make it messy, but it would robustly continue. This below, however, is starting to make me much more concerned.

I came across to Mastodon out of curiosity, fun, sense of opportunity & respect for the concept. Now I’m thinking it’s a vital hedge for us all against serious Twitter risks, including collapse.

@mikegalsworthy
Hi Mike, agree totally. But I would urge bigger accounts, media, celebrities etc to look seriously into creating (or contracting) their own mastodon instances. It would be unfair, perhaps impossible even to the volunteers that built and pay for the existing mastodon world to be burdened with our costs and admin.
@R1ch1e5 @mikegalsworthy Great call. The mastodon server model maps beautifully to companies having their own servers - although the recent trend for cloud services probably means they don't have in-house IT services any more... which is a pity.