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Mastodon Is the Good One
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Those are completely different products, and you're continuing to abuse established terminology via your personal definitions.
I'm sorry but you don't know better than everybody else about what's centralized and what isn't.
Wrong again.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/how-to-migrate-from-one-server-to-another/
And yes, that's a solution with flaws (though, I think followers automatically migrate now too, note this is an old blog post) but that doesn't mean these things can't be fixed. Ultimately federation can facilitate a sort of "data transfer" to an entry new server, automatically, but it's a lot of work that hasn't been completely finished yet.
If you don't like any of the existing servers, start your own. There's no difference from that and using relays other than a server holds your data rather than your client(s) -- which is a big problem with peer-to-peer stuff.
I've moved providers several times. Email has pros and cons.
One pro over what mastodon has done is that you can use your own domain but somebody else's server, which allows you to reclaim account ownerships/redirect via (basically) changing some DNS entries (which works even if the server is offline/breaks the social contract and refuses access to account migration tools). That could be implemented in mastodon too, but then again few people want to do their own domain management.
People don't choose other providers because Google does it for free and they're a household name. There's not much pressure to go use Proton's more limited free plan or pay Proton or anyone like them.
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