Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch
&gt;Finally, with instances, you keep control: if you find that you don&#x27;t like the moderation policies or culture of a particular instance, you&#x27;re always free to pick up and move to a different one.<p>Last I heard, Mastodon didn&#x27;t support migration between instances while still keeping followers, etc. Instead, you have to essentially start from scratch with a new account on a new instance. This is a serious problem because it strongly discourages exodus; Twitter itself shows that people will put up with a lot of nonsense before leaving to alternatives because they&#x27;ve cultivated a brand and a following and don&#x27;t want to lose it all. Moderators of instances are not a static thing; like any political system it shifts with whoever is in charge over time. An instance that seemed friendly to a user initially can over time become more oppressive to them, but the user has invested so much into that instance that they would have to leave behind that they&#x27;d put up with it when they shouldn&#x27;t have to.