>This Twitter drama is strikingly similar to Freenode.
Freenode is orders of magnitude smaller with a technical and picky user base. Moving from freenode to a different server is a much smaller move as nothing changes for the users aside from a one time migration. Twitter is a mass market megaphone used by all sorts of people with different incentives, and the alternative - Mastodon - is vastly inferior for the average user who doesn't care about Elon's drama.
Freenode is orders of magnitude smaller with a technical and picky user base. Moving from freenode to a different server is a much smaller move as nothing changes for the users aside from a one time migration. Twitter is a mass market megaphone used by all sorts of people with different incentives, and the alternative - Mastodon - is vastly inferior for the average user who doesn't care about Elon's drama.