So, we talk a lot about how Mastodon is different from Twitter, and I generally agree - but, I wonder if the difference isn't as much about the number of people, and the fact that we're already self selected to be the sort of people who would choose to use Mastodon instead of Twitter, given the choice. If that were true, then twitter going down could make Mastodon a lot more like Twitter, simply because of all the extra users who would no longer have the choice to use Twitter instead... :/