“‘Mastodon’ is a competitor to—“

Why do journalists always say this? This is some capitalist-brained mindset.

The only thing the Fediverse competes with is your sleep schedule.

@[email protected] I don't disagree but I also feel like "competes with" is often synonymous with "exists in a space with" -- it competes with twitter/threads/etc in the same way that free to play games compete against each other, even if they might not be in the same space but in terms of like, attention economy