@kaniini @dansup @mmn @Gargron I'd just like to interject. It was Qvitter which started the wave of expansion of the fediverse. In the Twitter exodus of Feb 2016 people searched for a Twitter alternative and found Qvitter and the few Quitter sites. For a while my timeline was going crazy and it was at that point I realized that some kind of filtering was needed. Sites like shitposter.club started at that time. About a year later something similar happened with Mastodon.