I use it untill I need to type a name. Then I type normally and forget about swipe typing exists…

… I then start using it again the next week

We can see the posts on both platforms (except for the case of de-federation).

Competition is an odd topic for open source software. For example, whilst mastodon, kbin and lemmy are all competing for attention, they are collectively making the activitypub ecosystem more attractive.

A similar thing happens with linux: Oracle, red hat, canonical etc all compete for market share, but pay for developers to work on the wider linux ecosystem (the kernel as well as GNOME and other apps etc)

those are rookie numbers