For only $8 a month, you can get a website that's still significantly shittier than the one you got for free before Elon Musk got too high and decided to destroy it.
@lolgop Elon is to Twitter what a million one thumbed monkeys are to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

@lolgop Social media is utterly broken. Twitter and F'book amplify the worst humanity has to offer, and smother much of the truth and goodness in layers of bullshit.

Mastodon isn't a bad landing spot, but I haven't seen lists of experts get replicated in quite the right way on other platforms yet. Sooner or later, inevitably, everything will be federated.