Notice something interesting from this Wired article?

Media is already branding Mastodon as "Twitter's most popular alternative".

Not Post, not Hive, not Gab—it's Mastodon.

And once a media narrative takes shape, that becomes the story.
https://www.wired.com/story/mastodon-features-that-twitter-should-steal-but-wont/

Mastodon Features That Twitter Should Steal (but Won’t)

Elon Musk's platform could learn a thing or two from its most popular alternative—like how to build a social platform people actually want to be on.

WIRED

@atomicpoet

It's literally true, according to that report from Dewey Square Group. Mastodon is by far the most popular. Hive was a distant second. Post is a flyspeck.

https://www.deweysquare.com/2022/12/new-report-from-dewey-digital-snapshot-of-twitter-migration/

New Report from Dewey Digital: Snapshot of Twitter Migration | Dewey Square Group

Dewey Digital examines recent Twitter migration to other social media platforms and analyzes which platforms are growing, by tracking number of...

Dewey Square Group