Mastodon is interoperable, decentralized, operated by a nonprofit, lively, and, ACTUALLY, isn't hard to use. So why is everyone championing Threads as the main Twitter alternative?

As a reminder: Pawoo was never run by your typical volunteers.
It was made by Pixiv (hence the particular link between those two) and got already acquired once by Russell Co. in December 2019.

Companies can run their instances (some even contribute to the project!) and it's not always a bad thing... but just double-check if they don't do weird things with it since you're still giving them data.

Truth Social ripped off open-source platform Mastodon

Mastodon was built to be a kinder, more decentralized version of Twitter — then Gab showed up