@baldur Agreed! I thought I'd respond with my blog post about this very topic, in case others would like to read it 😊 It's a little out of date now as it was from 2018 and a lot has happened since then. I'll try to update it sometime, particularly the references to Twitter and make it clear that I'm no longer there! Otherwise, I think the premise still holds!
https://peteroshaughnessy.com/posts/why-mastodon-is-defying-the-critical-mass/