They are looking for the same as tw/ig/fb/etc most of the fediverse doesn’t work that way that’s why most of the ones that go to mastodon then return to the walled gardens.

The people are just going to what it looks like the image they have of twitter at the beginning not realizing that is going to be a new twitter as soon as most of them have gone to the new twitter.

Adding to what others have said If you are looking for or interested in game engine clones https://osgameclones.com/

Yes, go to main page https://usborne.com/ choose English and USA and it will let you access to the books. I hate them too, those designers or whoever think that should be useful should be punished.

Spanish Windows 1.03 5 1/4 floppy discs

To add a bit more of info an interesting podcast about old computing https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-36-the-rise-of-cpm