"What I failed to realize was that I registered in what is, in truth, a closed-off room in the rapidly growing Mastodon house."

"There is nothing intrinsically wonderful about Mastodon aside from the fact that it's not Twitter and, more importantly, is not a part of a public company that needs to make money."

"Mastodon implies large, slow, frozen, and dead for thousands of years."

"In trying to satisfy a spike of new users, Mastodon broke the cardinal rule of social media: it separated them into silos and made it hard if not impossible for them to all socialize."

"And I get that having a decentralized social media platform, Mastodon creator Eugen Rochko's big idea, helps create safe zones from groups and topics, but it's really a terrible approach that will lead to a stagnant growth and way more opinion bubbles, which is the last thing we need."

"User handles do show up in Toots (blech!) but not in the URLs for users' Mastodon homepages."

"If you can't find people by name, then how can you follow them on Mastodon?"

"I started using Mastodon in Safari. It was not a good experience. At least there's an app...or apps."

"And, no, Mastodon cannot live on hype alone."