We're comparing just to the original consumer product, which is about the same as Mastodon is today. That's why we said "original consumer product" and not "Twitter's current consumer product".
Mastodon actually has more features than the original Twitter consumer product like hashtag follows, global timelines, and more sophisticated filtering/muting capabilities.
Some people argue it's not so expensive to build a scalable Twitter with modern tools, which is why we also included the comparison against Threads. That's a very recent data point showing how ridiculously expensive it is to build applications like this, and they didn't even start from scratch as Instagram/Meta already had infrastructure powering similar products.
Mastodon actually has more features than the original Twitter consumer product like hashtag follows, global timelines, and more sophisticated filtering/muting capabilities.
Some people argue it's not so expensive to build a scalable Twitter with modern tools, which is why we also included the comparison against Threads. That's a very recent data point showing how ridiculously expensive it is to build applications like this, and they didn't even start from scratch as Instagram/Meta already had infrastructure powering similar products.