I mean, Mastodon has over ten million users. That isn't Twitter scale but it isn't nothing. And 200 million people are using Threads. And Bluesky... also exists

I mean, Mastodon has over ten million users. That isn't Twitter scale but it isn't nothing. And 200 million people are using Threads. And Bluesky... also exists. The competition is there. You have to get past the premise that a platform has to completely subsume Twitter in every metric to be a valid alternative. I feel like we're moving past the paradigm of the web centralizing around a few big silos anyway. A lot of people are moving to closed Discord communities for instance.