I suppose if the goal is to emulate irc servers but for short twits then depending on who owns a server and how well they keep things on topic then it could work. Say a mastodon thingie for software developers, than bans any politics or crypto would be nice to have. Ideally something that search engines can index so we dont silo knowledge. I think, i still dont know what this is.

You are not the average person. This is basically alien language to someone who isn’t tech savvy, which makes it a non starter.

I'm using technical language because I'm on HN.

"You visit a website (or install an app) and you create an account with an email address and password" is something the average person is used to. The UX will be confusing at first - there are new concepts to learn. People will figure it out.

You seem to be out of touch with what the non-technical web users. Practically none will read and implement the stuff in their documentation in 10 minutes.

Even if some do, most of those will run into a tiny random roadblock and will give up.

Nothing as "techy" as Mastodon or the one you mentioned will be adopted at the scale of Twitter.