[usrn]

Twitter is not IRC. Switching from Freenode to Libra means changing a config and possibly sorting out some channels that switched faster than you expected.

Switching from Twitter to Mastodon means abandoning the (pretty terrible but familiar) software and an entire mode of interaction. Mastodon is much more about interacting with your peers than celebrities.

If anything this shows how superior IRC because of its flexibility.

[tinus_hn]

It shows an advantage of an open protocol over a closed system:

You can just host it somewhere else if things go sour.