The fragmentation among friends that follows Twitter’s collapse is exactly the kind of problem that Mastodon and the social web solves for. Imagine that you don’t have to pick and choose which new platform to adopt, or make and maintain a million accounts—because you can follow anyone regardless of which platform they’re on. That’s our reality.
@Gargron A better point of reference to me personally is how 15 years ago, even though not all of my friends were on the same IM platforms I could just use a multiprotocol messenger like Trillian to keep tabs on all of them instead of having to install 30 different clients.