Michael StancliftTwitter users are all like “I don’t know if I can trust a bunch of career sysadmins and network engineers to run their own Mastodon instances” — meanwhile Elon is just running around the Twitter data center going “what’s this button do?”
Mark VandeWettering 📻🔭👾@vmstan To be fair, both things may be problematic. There are certainly technical problems associated with running an instance, but there are also the same sort of societal/ethical issues that Twitter in the post-Musk acquisition phase that also are problematic for Mastodon, no matter how good the technical support is.