@hunterwalk good question. I think thriving masto instances have interesting "local" timelines, of those others who are on the same server as you. Right now the Medium instance is quiet since there's only a few of us on here, but I can imagine it'll be fairly interesting once they start bringing writers over. I do also like their content moderation policies and it is way more up to date mastodon software than the .cloud instance, so there are new features too.