Mastodon's federated design and lack of moderation are a huge weakness. I'm white, male, and therefore don't get much abuse.

But Mastodon's idea of how do deal with abuse is literally 'self help', which is not scalable and not viable long term. Some niche communities may successfully migrate, but overall it won't work.

Lot of other architectural problems too.

My recommendation: Keep your Twitter account, when it finally goes chapter 11 and competent management takes over, move back.

@ncweaver Also, you’re not talking much about racism, racial/social justice, and such nor are you an activist in such areas. Mastodon does have a history of being a safe space for some marginalised peoples, but IMO the expectation is that the people are quite & talk amongst themselves rather than advocate, educate others, agitate, etc.