I have long touted the advantages of decentralized networks over the centralized variety (and you will no doubt hear me doing it again in the future). This article is a nice statement of many of those advantages, compiled as a list of things that Twitter has done (to the detriment of users and wider society) that could not be done by Mastodon. The list includes simple things like charging for blue check marks and changing the site's identity into a 2011-era joke to more serious things like pushing advertising content into user's feeds and destabilizing democracy. Related: What was Twitter Anyway? via Grant Potter, who does the linking thing correctly.
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