@rufustheduck That's the generic, big picture why.

Benefits of being on mastodon.social for you:

Biggest view of the fediverse, developers very much focused on your server, unlikely to shutdown, a 'little bit of everything' experience.

Downsides of staying:

Too big for thoughtful moderation, no particular relevance to any specific hobby or interest, too large for the local timeline to be anything other than a firehose of random conversation fragments.

@rufustheduck So, when email first started out, everyone used different servers, sometimes from their school, their job, their internet company, a dedicated email company, what have you.

Now everyone uses Gmail, and if you don't want to put all your eggs in one (heavily surveilled, monetized) basket, you avoid it personally. But you're going to be messaging people who are on Gmail most of the time, so you've gained little.

The advice to move is to preempt mastodon.social becoming that basket.

@randahl Could you link to the fact check please? there are a few people I need to show it to.