@kissane This is a fantastic piece, thank you!
There is one way in which Mastodon, for me, is very much like Twitter.
Some of the people dominating progressive discourse are not as committed to real progress as they purport to be.
They crush good-faith debate, locking out even people they claim to be advocating for, if those people dare challenge a small part of their thesis.
So I, a progressive with "minority cred", cede the podium to people who think they know my needs better than I do.