[erik_kemp]

Thanks for sharing your considerations. It's good that people care and think carefully about which services to use and not to use, and also share it.

I think the main problem is that the idea and implications of decentralisation are hard to fully grasp. It does not imply privacy or security. It does imply decentralisation of power, decentralisation of rules & code of conduct and decentralisation of financing.

My own experience:

Mastodon has provided me a first step in more digital sovereignty. It is very refreshing to have a timeline that you can fully control.

Moving to Mastodon felt like moving into a new village. You start with an empty timeline, and you have to actively work on your first connections.

After some initial effort, you are rewarded with meeting interesting people. They welcome you in their communities, and you can keep on discovering amazing people through the messages they boost!

Feel free to interact via [e-mail] :-)