For me the biggest reasoning is the inability to get my account nuked for wrongthink, which has happened dozens of times and cost me approximately a decade and a half of networking contacts. Lost access to customers and suppliers, lost transcripts of discussions, lost access to photos that only existed on my social media accounts.

The ability to keep my contact list and content outside the control of some corporation that still has the taste of government dick in its mouth is priceless.

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 This is happening with every single social media platform rn 

 Yup, agreed. I was just replying to the other comment saying that I disliked how Twitter was suppressing people on their platform for saying things that they deemed not in line with their agenda.

Centralized authority is really hurtful to the online world, where you should be able to conduct yourself as you see fit. If someone does not like you or agree with you, they can simply just block you and move on.