Seems like the early mover effect. Regardless, these fediverse wars are fascinating to watch. Mastodon has the interesting situation where enthusiasts want to

Seems like the early mover effect. Regardless, these fediverse wars are fascinating to watch. Mastodon has the interesting situation where enthusiasts want to grow the network by having high profile characters join yet paradoxically the culture is exactly opposite to that. They frown upon influencer culture, anything remotely capitalistic, famous, etc. They're also against basic features like search, quote tweets, recommendation algorithms, anything proven and essential to make a network grow. Admittedly, those mechanisms do tend to lead to the culture seen on Twitter. Hilariously, that's what people seem to want. The high profile Twitter users that had every chance to join Mastodon, never did. Yet immediately jump to Bluesky. In response, Mastodon (the company) seems to finally come around and make some changes (easier to join, quote tweets coming, etc). Ultimately, the moderation approach is going to be decisive. In my view, Mastodon is "toxically safe". It leads to a culture unfit for the masses. Bluesky's long term culture is unclear to me, but I imagine it will be Twitter-like on the main server.