There's a difference between being a communist and blindly supporting authoritarian dictatorships wearing communist masks.

I mean, tweets are pretty regularly cited on the news. Not sure how much more mainstream Twitter could become.

It would be nice if the instances could essentially federate themselves across instances. If two communities agree, they could both combine and show the posts from one another's feeds, without sacrificing their autonomy. This way if you are subscribed to once instance's community, you could see content from a much larger super community.

It's considered bad form to just toss your babies into boiling water these days. You're supposed to split their head with a knife first. Much nicer.