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 Why everybody just assumes that volunteers on Mastodon must by definition be volunteers? Just because you are not the product and your instance doesn't sell your data and raise VC funds doesn't mean it can't pay mods. If enough people donate to their instance, this could be achievable. (Also, not every instance has to be free, but that's not my point here.)