Hmm, maybe I should see the fediverse as multiple loosely-connected Twitter clones, rather than one place maybe? I seemed to have a malformed expectation regarding Mastodon. Thanks for clarifying that for me.
"Mastodon is a decentralized network! Remember, regardless of server choice you can talk to and follow anyone on Mastodon!"
-- mastodon.social
I was perhaps misreading the developer's intentions.
Mastodon is just one ActivityPub software. PeerTube and Pixelfed let your loosely-connected Twitter clones also be loosely connected to Instagram clones. It's a big world.
So I wouldn't get too hung up on one developer (me included).
"Mastodon is a decentralized network! Remember, regardless of server choice you can talk to and follow anyone on Mastodon!" -- mastodon.social
I was perhaps misreading the developer's intentions.