@tess It's such an interesting (in the also-anxious sense) moment, too, because a lot of fedi movers express no interest in protecting refuge, and Mastodon (the tooling and the community substrate) has also alienated so many people.
I will say that I can imagine some extremely protective, community-grounded institutions that can be built on AT as it's speced out now that would have a very hard time on present-day fedi—and also about a thousand ways for things to go sideways.