When Elon told the whole world that making Twitter is easy and requires a lot less people than they had, it was inevitable that competitors would take that to mean that they should develop their own versions.
Umm 70M is actually not a lot on meta/Twitter scale.<p>Also, gaining users is only the the beginning. Keeping them is the tough part.<p>Personally I'm not rooting for either. I'd rather see mastodon and Lemmy win big.