Andrew Jon Thomson@mmasnick sounds like they got hung up on choosing a server and never actually used mastodon. That was my story until Twitter started to get really bad and I spent the extra 20 minutes necessary to familiarize myself enough with the interface on Mastodon to find an appropriate server for me and use it.
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