You make points that I've been thinking about too. Remember the Arab Spring? Definitely spurred on by Twitter. People power is terrifying for the 1% and those in power.

The question I have is this, will this usher in a new era of decentralization and will decentralized sites like Mastodon (et.al) be powerful enough to let people organize OR will it make it easier for those in power to pick off individual trouble makers?