What popularity? All I see is a suspicious number of repeated submissions on HN, coinciding with pretty much the same recycled press release disguised as a new

What popularity? All I see is a suspicious number of repeated submissions on HN, coinciding with pretty much the same recycled press release disguised as a news item, cropping up on a few tech sites. I strongly suspect this supposed sudden "popularity" of Mastodon is nowt but the result of an ongoing viral marketing campaign.