Recent 7-minute BBC interview includes @Gargron sharing his motivation for developing #Mastodon software:

“I felt like #Twitter was a very important communications platform… and I thought that it being in the hands of a single company was a big risk... that something as important as that to internet infrastructure should be more akin to a public utility…. without there being a single point of failure.”

Decentralized on purpose. #TwitterMigration

https://youtu.be/bmzv_12C6q8