@ben_c I think the differences are important.

There is no "this place". There are many places all talking to one another. Some float, some sink. Each one just has to worry about it's own community, which is the greatest strength of the platform: the ratio of mods to users.

I mean, there is no "Mastodon" the place. There are thousands of Mastodon instances. There is the idea of Mastodon. There is choice. Mastodon doesn't have to kill anything: it's designed to outlive the alternatives.