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 That may well be, but moderation is in some ways social media's hard problem anyway. When I used FB's tools to report a Greek neo-Nazi for blatant antisemitism, I was told I could mute or unfriend him. When I've reported people on Twitter for similar things, I'm not sure I've even gotten a response.