But, The Right Thing doesn't exist yet, and this does. So the question for potential users is whether to take the risk of building a following here (and encouraging followers to migrate from twitter) when it could easily fail in any of the usual ways, within days or months. I don't have an opinion yet :)
@Meaningness I feel pretty torn about this, and also uneasy about this instance's policies w/r/t heterodox thinking

For all users, it's worth checking out the mastodon.social content moderation guidelines, at https://mastodon.social/about/more

As @sonya points out, not everyone may be happy with them.

As our host @Gargron point out, if you don't like them, you can run your own instance.

But instances choose who they peer with... so the Mastodon-based network may balkanize.

@Meaningness @sonya I've watched this play out and have had to deal with it since the first time it happened, I may have made the first (long-term) server ever completely blocked by other servers. I've watched how it played out with my own and with other servers if you ever want to know about that.
@MoonMan @sonya Yah... Overall, I'd love to see this thing work, and it's a really impressive one-person tech demo, but I don't think it addresses any of the hard issues, so ... I wouldn't bet on any of us using it a month from now.

@Meaningness @sonya
>I don't think it addresses any of the hard issues

tough, but fair