Mastodon (and related networks) will never succeed because the userbase consists mostly of """liberal""" control freaks and cowards that have migrated from sites like twitter and tumblr. Mastodon users always dish it out, but they can never take it.

Instead of using federation to create a system that is resilient against censorship, mastodon users have re-created the feel-good sanitization and censorship of corporate-controlled media networks.