I'll probably be socially forced into doing it anyways, but at this point I don't want to join or use any social media that isn't open sourced and federated
I remember so many people complaining about Mastodon like "what if my instance gets taken down???"
Well now your whole site is getting taken down and there is no place to move your info, no systems in place to keep your friends. Fortunately we at least have time to back stuff up and will hopefully have good data export tools.
This is what happens when you put all your eggbugs in one basket. A monolithic, rigid structure seems stronger until the point it breaks. If you want the old internet, you have to embrace the fact that the old internet was sometimes inconvenient. You can't build and fund yourself like a startup and expect to be successful while pushing against the grain of that system.
I went with Mastodon because fuck centralized sites. I didn't trust Bluesky (still don't but i'm getting there) and didn't like that Cohost was sorta unproven. (That might feel a little mean now that the site is, actually, dying despite the creators really genuinely trying. I don't say that to be mean, it's a hard problem to solve.)
I personally also wanted Pillowfort to take off because they had the Ao3 nonprofit model but they just... haven't. It's that and Mastodon for me, though i don't like how i have like five different Mastodon accounts because everyone blocks different types of instances.
