alt Hacker News> But why would I ever choose locked down, corporate Twitter v2 "it'll be different this time!" over Mastodon?
So that you don't have to move from Mastodon instance to Mastodon instance over a petty owner disagreement after they delete the entire server with all your data.
And yet, oodles of people continue to happily use it every day. From what I've seen, it's only the assholes who get booted out of everywhere they go.