It’s unfortunate that, in an effort to avoid the supposed mistakes of Twitter, Mastodon has descended into a navel-gazing debate about.. avoiding the mistakes of Twitter.

Arguing over QT’s and search feels like it’s missing the forest for the trees: toxic behaviors and communities originate from a complex mix of norms, moderation (or lack thereof) and product affordances.

It’s never going to boil down to just a set of product features.

BIG NEWS: Pawoo.net, the world's 2nd biggest Mastodon instance, has just been acquired.

The entity acquiring them is the Mask Group, a business that also runs mstdn.jp and mastodon.cloud. They are also active in the so-called "Web 3.0" space.

If you haven't heard of pawoo.net, it's because many instances have de-federated from it.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mask-network-acquires-pawoo-net-070000858.html