Mostly just the resilience and control. An outage or censorship incident on one node can be contained, isolated, and users can easily go around it.
“Oh no, my preferred instance went down!” switches to another instance with the exact same content

Also, I think some European governments run Mastodon servers for themselves. Which sounds weird, but makes more sense in an IT security context. Their data, stored on their servers, that they manage. No third party business contractors needed.

I would have dropped one of those ol’ fart juice packets we had as kids and walked away.

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Oh. Right. This one’s being delegated to his son.

Knowing Trump’s business track record, it’ll be bankrupt before the end of his term, and earn the ire of every incumbent telecom and tech company with lobbyist money to spend.

Unless you’re in a group of furries. Then it’s either a poker face, or suggestive exclamations of OwO and UwU.

Boi…