“I would bet so. Like I could be wrong, but it feels like in terms of the herd instinct of folks and the herd instinct of tech press and whatnot, there's more now than there was when Mastodon and Threads and everything else launched a few years ago, including Blue Sky, which was the two years, I guess Blue Sky's been around for a few years and nothing was really happening. And then finally this magical moment happened where people all of a sudden Moved over, and they had that inflection point that I think that now makes the service more useful.”
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