Which implies, AFAICT, a winner-take-all dynamic regarding platform dominance.
Which then means, if true, that all of those aiming for getting another platform up there with mastodon may not realise the hill they’re trying to climb (thus my take that if you care about competing with masto you should be working together with everyone else that also cares).
For microblogging, I think it’s now too late. Mastodon is the fediverse (for microblogging at least).