@maloki:
1. Mastodon's awesome and attractive.
2. Community organising and constructing positive, constructive open platforms that interoperate.
3. "I don't know if it will adhere to established standards and start inventing its own protocols for stuff and lose its way in the world of flashy bling. So I'm afraid I can't guarantee that you'll be able to use it to communicate with me in the future, but hopefully it'll work just fine at least for a while."