Ok, testing this.

But why couldn't they just build a twitter clone instead? Why do I have to be on a server, and does the server matter in any way?

@maggiewillrise I did green one thing about Mastodon is that DM's are not encrypted because they are stored on the server... so several admins can read all the DMs.
@JHALLSD good to know. I would never post anything in DM that I couldn't write on a post card. I use Signal for confidential stuff.