As someone who fully divested from twitter despite being reliant on it early in 2023 I'm here to tell you that you can, in fact, just not use twitter. You can go all in on mastodon. In fact, it'll probably make mastodon work better for you if you do

"What about cool people that are only on Twitter?"

If they were truly cool they wouldn't be *only* on Twitter

@eniko I'd like to point out that by forcing people to sign in to see any content at all, they've effectively made themselves more like Pinterest, the least cool social media site in a world where Facebook exists.