bluesky may be an op, poorly designed, and on course to become Mastodon 2, but at least it's not Mastodon 1, which is a complete fucking nightmare
edit: please note I am not taking a side in the above conflict, in part because it is completely incomprehensible to me, and in part because I am unqualified to speak on many of the subjects at hand; as with every conflict there are at least two sides. I am taking a side against the idea of "federated social media."
as much as I utterly detest tech companies, I would probably trust a Mastodon instance run by, idk, Apple, or my ISP, a whole lot more than bungus.fungus. side note, if anyone does actually know of any masto instances run by people who's Actual Job it is to run said instance please lmk
I like the idea of Mastodon a lot, and to be perfectly honest if I cared more about being on social media I would 100% be there and put up with its many issues. imo way more shit needs to be federated. centralization sucks.

