@Gargron
Mastodon grows, the path is correct, but it's not 10x better that Twitter if you ignore the "it's free software and federated" aspect which only some of us consider a value in itself.
That can be communicated differently, as in "every community has it's own rules and it's super easy to create one", but while the first half is true the second not so much, it's certainly not reddit, although services like masto.host help and maybe they could be given more visibility (not affiliated!)