Many of the things you can't do with Mastodon are the result of careful design.
Here is a blog on Mastodon. All the articles are useful, but check this one in particular. Here's why.
Cage the Mastodon
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/07/cage-the-mastodon/
An overview of features for dealing with abuse and harassment
Mastodon is designed in this way, but on the other hand, the network that Mastodon is connected to is based on a protocol called ActivityPub, which allows it to transparently interact with many different products.
Each of these products was developed for a different purpose and has a different philosophy than Mastodon.
Pleroma and Misskey are particularly well-known social networks that are similar to Mastodon. There are also forks that are based on Mastodon but slightly different.
Mastodon has many forks, but let's introduce Hometown and Fedibird.
Hometown is a small community-oriented fork. This is probably the exact opposite of a commercial silo, which would surprise you.
Read this article by Darius Kazemi. It's a moving and wonderful work. https://runyourown.social/
Fedibird is a more full-featured implementation with features that Mastodon didn't include for various reasons. This should also alleviate some of the criticism of Mastodon.
https://fedibird.com
In my opinion, the current Mastodon is carefully designed for humans and promises a comfortable life. It's the best living quarters.
However, there is still a lack of a system for state and administration, and a system for commercial activities. Administrative district, commercial district.
But if you bring Twitter as it is, it won't work. We should design better systems that fit decentralized networks.
Come on, who makes this happen?
@noellabo
Hope a lot of people will rt it, absolutely agree with you