@drsdon @lynneverson @stux I think Mastodon works best when you're on a smaller instance (maybe <10k users?) which aligns as close as possible with your interests. That way moderation is most effective and personal. Plus the "local" feed becomes much more useful.

@lynneverson @drsdon @stux I'd actually prefer to to migrate to mastodon.coffee if I could, but it's been closed to new accounts for some time.

@drsdon mastodon.social is just too big (being the "flagship" instance and all) and with so much growth it's impossible for moderation to keep up. It's blocked by a lot of instances as a result. Also, whenever there's a new influx of users, it gets overloaded for hours/days since so many think they need to be on the "flagship" instance. Mstdn.social is much smaller (1/6 the size, but still really way too big) and I really like the administrator @stux over there.

@gbosslet That is a great way to think about it. We're old enough to remember an internet that was true peer-to-peer, not peer-to-firm-to-peer. It's an idea which I think has slowly and almost entirely eroded during the gradual commodification & monetization of the internet over the last few decades. It took Mastodon to remind me how The Internet was supposed to work.