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 ...I'm thinking that as more viable third-party clients become available, it'll accelerate attention through better onboarding UX. Ivory, itself, will convert many holdouts.
@ChrisPirillo I'm hoping one day we get something like Sam Ruston's flamingo. That app is still fantastic and really only held back by the limits of Twitter's API.
@KyleDavidE ...yeah, that was my favorite as well. Terrible shame. Maybe he'll get bitten by the Mastodon bug?