nostr:npub1vdkesr9ecld329atnx70qxx53c7r9fp708hfaxg6mjw690yvfgvq3ptz44 I strenuously disagree with that take. For years, even Mastodon’s founder constantly referred to it as an alternative to Shitter, and big media still can’t describe it. So perhaps the culture did a poor job of explaining itself? Which may explain why after getting the most prodigious explosion of earned media in the history of digital tech, it still enjoys an active user base that is little more than a rounding error in most social media stats.