Perhaps one of the most overlooked things about the Twitter migration is how people vet alternatives—often by following the herd or trusted people.
Do you know where your instance is hosted? The local laws affecting your privacy?
Who makes the underlying software and decides what goes into the next release? Would they ever sell out to a billionaire?
These questions are rhetorical for self reflection.
Mastodon isn’t Twitter, but in some ways, that’s a good thing.
Welcome refugees. 
