@nyanide @jexams before mastodon there was an exodus of people from Twitter that left for various reasons. There were a few servers on the Fediverse barely hanging on and then maybe 12+ "edgy" servers took over the network. This was a year or so before Mastodon even showed up. Mastodon slowly brought in new users at first and in 2018 had a big migration of people and only a few years after that, the new people called the people already here for years "dark fedi" lol