I think it's super important that we realize that Mastodon isn't "the next Twitter / Tumblr / whatever". It's not there yet. I was on the ground floor when people were "migrating" to Google Plus, and that went so horribly because we all thought it was gonna kill Facebook tomorrow.
We won't kill *anything* unless we make this a place people want to come to by 1) keeping all oppressors out and 2) making good community / context / posts
@InspectorCaracal @ben_c the product is so far removed from what twitter is trying to be anyways. At most it could be compared to "legacy twitter" and that's only comparing technology on a single instance without bringing federation or community into this.