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a twitter replacement with all the filters and whatnot Musk is talking about dismantling.All the filters and whatnot people talk about people talking about Musk dismantling.
There's a mass hysteria happening. Pretty much nothing of consequence has happened on Twitter on user side, except for what people make it in their heads, or talk about to show off in front of the group, one-upping each other in their newly discovered deep hatred for Musk.
They check out Mastodon and are disappointed, because despite the fact it does give you more control and tools to "carefully curate your safe space", it's not the "Twitter but without Musk" they hoped it to be. It's not, and can't be, because the userbase isn't there, and the culture isn't there. Fediverse is still driven by political extremists crafting their own safe space to stew in their own vitriol, and the very identity is still defined as "we're not Twitter". Fediverse won't grow until it develops its own identity, that's not just negative space between commercial social media (and until it insulates the federation against political crazies).
Federation is hard. E-mail and Mastodon are both, simultaneously, large successes and huge failures. There's a lot to learn from it, there's a potential to do better - but now is not the time, not when the topic is covered by the wannabe Internet stars doing performative anti-Musk dances.
> “(...) can’t we just have our twitter back, pretty please?”
They still have it, and guess what, they're still on it - because all this whining is just for show.