For a free software user, the language the tool is implemented in matters because it makes exercising the four freedoms easier.

It looks like there is a heavy focus here on emphasizing the migration from Twitter as a migration to “Mastodon” as opposed to “the fediverse” as if non-Mastodon instances simply do not exist or are irrelevant. I wonder if there is a specific reason for this and if the numbers would look drastically different if the whole Fediverse were to be examined.

For me, part of the beauty of the fediverse is that, just as you’re not locked into a specific instance, you’re also not locked into a specific implementation. I would hate to be considered “not part of the network” because I am using Pleroma or Lemmy.