for cultural reasons I don't fully understand yet, mastodon instances are becoming the type of places where the word "stupid" is an ableist slur, among other examples of extremely heavy-handed moderation. at this point I don't understand who mastodon is for besides the small community vibe. this doesn't match up with the culture of pleroma instances, where anything goes. pleroma also uses activitypub and the instances do sometimes federate with mastodon but most of the mastodon instances have a very long blacklist.

I don't think that enough people are ready for the concept of federated social networking since they still tend to gravitate heavily towards centralized services like parler. they're more familiar.