For me at least, getting onto @Mastodon and appreciating the structure of the platform and the tone of conversation has made these other pop-up social networks (Twitter replacements) totally unattractive. No, I don’t want to move up on a wait list by ā€œreferring 5 friendsā€; no, I don’t want to be part of another Jack Dorsey project; no, I don’t want to be part of something with weird completely top-down control. Mastodon broke me for other platforms.
@austinkocher @Mastodon The irony for me is that Jack says that Twitter should belong to no-one and be like an API ... and Mastodon seems to be very much in harmony with that vision. Far more so than any other proposed Twitter alternative that I'm aware of.