[mlindner]

I agree. I mostly use it for [c] for following a variety of notable (at a small scale) artists and some online personalities as well as Elon Musk. None of them are on Mastodon.

I also use it for open source intelligence following (in English) for the Ukraine war and following space news people. Most of them are not on Mastodon (in both cases) are not on twitter.

Also this is regional and dedicated to English. In Japan the alternative being pushed by a lot of Japanese twitter users is Instagram. I've not seen one Japanese post talk about Mastodon. I don't think people really realize how popular Twitter is in Japan. It's basically the de-facto most popular social media service there.