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It’s not clear that mastodon can do anything better. The problem is the federated architecture. Lumping server admin together with moderation and username namespacing and making the user choose it up front results in a clunky protocol design and user experience.

Nostr is similar to mastodon, but the servers have no role beyond making posts available to clients. The role of the server has been reduced as much as is easily possible. The question of who pays for these has not been solved, but at least users can switch between servers instantly, and even use many at once, so the choice is not very important.