A lot of people on Mastodon are there because they believe decentralized and open-source techologies are essential tools for resisting coercive power. The fediverse is innately resilient to censorship, advertising, and hostile takeovers. For these reasons, I made the switch from twitter sometime in the early 2020s, but I think it's important to remind ourselves that these virtuous properties are not a panacea to all the ills of social media. It doesn't matter whose database the posts exist in: we can all still be ragebaited. It's a fundamental vulnerability of our psychology, with or without Elon Musk intentionally exploiting it....