My thoughts as well. At least during the twitter drama we had Mastodon, and while instances did struggle with the traffic Mastodon was in a decent position to handle that. I'm not sure if any alternative exists for this scenario, though.
/shrug, i use it daily and didn't before. But again, we're not talking about a Reddit or Twitter replacement. I don't even want that. I want a slice of features that can fill the gap that Reddit or Twitter did. Mastodon worked excellently for that for me. I've permanently switched from Twitter, 6mo ago or w/e.
Reddit has Lemmy, maybe, but they seem in a less mature place than Mastodon was when Twitter fumbled.
Naysay Mastodon all you want, but i think it gained a fair bit of traction from Twitter's event. Best of all, it's not trying to be Twitter. I'm looking for that with Reddit, currently.
