@leibnizopenscience Admirable sleuthing work by the author, although the article omits the (IMO worth highlighting) aspect that as a Mastodon user, I can not only follow other Mastodon accounts, but also accounts on Threads*, Bluesky*, and many other platforms. Of these four microblogging environments, it's only Twitter that wants to be entirely closed off.(* with some caveats and only if the account owners want to be widely followable)