[PetitSasquatch]

It seems to me like there is a possible, albeit compromised, middle ground between highly centralised and the (in reality) partially centralised Mastodon model where users flock to popular monoliths: strictly per-user instances.

Given the right tooling etc etc, expediting user's migration to their own instances, of something like a Mastodon node, could be an achieveable route to greater decentralisation without getting muddled down in things like blockchain etc.. And executed correctly the model could be more communicable than what it presently appears to be.

From what I can see though, Mastodon isn't currently the technology stack to achieve, perhaps it could get there.

No solution is going to be perfect, but surely an emphasis on data sovereignty would reduce the volume of arguments over what a given platform should be.