For the morning crowd, here's 1500 words or so with some deeper thoughts on Mastodon after using it this week. http://blog.seanbonner.com/2017/04/05/taking-a-ride-on-mastodon/

@seanbonner A lot of the problems you discussed with identity and federation could be mitigated by running a single user instance. You could become @[email protected]

No chance of mistaken identity, full control over federation.

@ajroach42 Unless someone running another instance decides they don't like my opinion on X and stops federating with my instance cutting me off from huge chunks of the network.
@seanbonner Cutting you off from the portions of the network they control, sure. But only from the portions of the network they control.