Haha, fair enough. You were also specifically replying to someone asking about Twitter vs Mastodon, so providing an alternative that isn't owned by a total shitheel is still better.
I apologize profusely for being snarky on the Internet.
Jack is on the board but Jay Graber is the ceo. So far they have put tools in to squash alt right trolls, report and cut out nazi’s, misogynists, repost bots, growth hackers, transphobes, anti-LGBTQIA’s, enlightened centrist, reply trolls, and bigot defenders.
They brought in mastodon and activitypub advisors to help them decentralize, and went open source.
But, they are a corporate entity. But they’re trying for now.
This happened to me before, likely because I logged in from a VPN that they had an IP flag for. They wanted me to provide my phone number to unban the account. Hard pass. If I want to try Twitter again, I'll start looking at Mastodon.