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Mastodon exists, currently, because enough people like it (and some of those people, myself included, like it in part because it's less Americanized than BS). Perhaps a Twitter replacement should be better than Twitter. Maybe for many people Mastodon is an improvement.
"Enough" is true, in that as long as people can have instances up the software will run.
"Many" is a stretch, if you compare it to the alternatives.
As I said elsewhere, nobody says you have to like the popular thing. I'm fine with people hanging out in a niche alternative if that's what they want. Hell, I'm here.
But the thought that Masto would replace closed socials and specifically Twitter that was popular when they were seeing growth coming from Twitter users came and went.