I think the most positive thing from the bird-migration lately is about those who knew about the fediverse but were reluctant to join. OR have joined and not used it much. Now they are like "Oh yeah man, this fediverse is awesome" when their bird-friends start moving over, or at least trying it.

Also, another reminder that mastodon is just ONE platform. There are lots of others. Personally I (again) recommend Friendica. This is what it can do and how it looks like trom.tf/social/ and here is our instance that's public social.trom.tf