I dont think that at all. I think when people ask “why not mastodon” it’s coming from a place of misconception. Their own exposure to this knowledge and information is disproportionately higher than the world average, but it’s so much higher they can’t really comprehend how low the average is.
Much like a billionaire thinks a banana costs $10, a lemmy user thinks people know about mastodon at all.
Same. I worked for a storage company and when we broke 1PB per rack we broke a freight elevator moving one to a different floor, had to buy a new rack lift for the storage nodes, and eventually had to actually have structural engineers come in and assess if the building could handle converting the test lab to fit a few dozen of them.
I checked in on my old employer recently and they’re up to 58PB in 42U now