And most of it is free and/or donation-supported.
But of course, you don't get the same people as on Twitter.
I use Twitter to follow some publisher/anime bloggers, and there's none on any federated network, at least not anyone relevant.
And people on my Twitter are more chill than the ones I met on Mastodon (and mainly the ones that used Pleroma). I remember 2 times I had problems there:
One was when I mentioned something about Windows, like, just said that I used it, so a few people started offending me (not mocking or joking).
Another time, I posted a picture when I was watching anime on the TV. Someone asked how I took screenshots from the episodes. I said that I just had a script that downloaded from Reddit. The person got furious because 'I was leeching from the community and not contributing'.
So, I dumped the fediverse and I got back on Twitter where, in 10 years, I don't remember something like that ever happening.
- Option to post 1 NSFW tweet, instead on that being per account
- My likes being private, and no one seeing them in their timelines
- not seeing anyone's likes in my timeline.
- not seeing any 'recommended' tweets on my timeline (tweets included because someone I follow, follow that account)