The reason Mastodon and the Fediverse is spread out on so many servers is it protects it from being taken over by anyone. Not even the richest can buy this place.
Centralised services like Twitter are incredibly easy to buy out. If you move from Twitter to another centralised service, sooner or later that will get bought out too.
The point of the Fediverse is to break this buyout cycle, to let people be permanently in control of their accounts. More info here:
This is true.
That’s why it’s important to chose server with care, or even, setup your own server.
You can also look for servers that has signed the Mastodon server covenant. That means they have someone else who has admin access (in case someone dies), they pledge to give users a 3 months heads up before shutting down, keeping backups and so on.
If the server is up you can always bring your account to another server.
Here’s a server where you can search for a server for you.
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