[tiarafawn]

Content moderation (which seems to be the biggest point of contention with Twitter right now) is decentralized.

By choosing your hoster, you delegate content moderation capabilities for your feed to them. If you don't agree with their policies, you can switch to a different hoster without having to leave the ecosystem.

I am not sure to which degree this is practiced/convenient in Mastodon currently, but its distributed nature enables this as an elegant solution to the content moderation problem IMO

[sneak]

> If you don't agree with their policies, you can switch to a different hoster without having to leave the ecosystem.

But you lose all of your followers, so in practice this is never done. You’re stuck with the censorship imposed by your chosen instance operator. Most are more strict and less transparent than Twitter.

[mcv]

I know Hubzilla supports migrating profiles. I'm not sure if any of the others do. I know Diaspora doesn't, but I keep seeing comments in this discussion that suggest Mastodon does.

[dmolinac]

Actually it is not true, you can migrate from instances. You lost all messages but the followers are informed of the change:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/how-to-migrate-from-on...