[tstactplsignore]

No, you can host your own server, subscribe to your own moderation services. It's a protocol like email.

[cmxch]

Full stack, and ability to opt out of purely ideological filters that are essentially trying to mandate Dorsey Twitter?

At least with Mastodon, you weren’t tied as tightly or centrally, such that the worst one can do is balkanize instance groups as opposed to efficient narrative security ops.