TO BE CLEAR, I'm not saying that Mastodon will have any impact on Twitter whatsoever.
The idea of a social network "beating" another social network is ridiculous.
The new Reply All two-parter is good!
If you're deep in infosec, it will probably piss you off and/or bore you.
If you're not, it's an interesting story of how Alex Blumberg's Uber account got hacked. http://waxy.org/2017/04/reply-alls-the-russian-passenger/
Early adopters are in the infosec, SV, and internet culture worlds, which are notoriously demographically skewed. I have great respect for those worlds, but but if those are the folks who accrue the earliest/greatest following & power, then we'll see many of the same old problems all over again.
just found a bunch of anime avatared gamergaters in the public feed. well, that did not take long...
Seems Mastodon does a great job copying Twitter. Warts and all: Can't find a way to report content or abuse.