Mastodon is an interesting idea and I'm happy to give it a shot and connect with folks here.

That said, I see some adoption issues:

1. The IDs are way too long. I went from 10 to 33 chars.
2. How do we manage duplicate IDs? What happens when someone uses my handle on a different Mastodon server?
3. How does verification work?
4. What happens when a server goes down? Is it easy to move to another server without starting over?
5. All this makes it too complicated for widespread adoption.