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Yay! I still don’t know how to use anything that looks like twitter tho
Joined yesterday, Elon boi going down a right wing rabbithole and the zucc-verse is not very appetizing.
Mastodon is the most stable social network I have used in a long time. Love it!
Everyone is okay. I haven’t even seen sinophobia yet
1989 Tianneman square protests
It’s here unfortunately, but unlike reddit, opposing opinions aren’t modded out.
But that’s just like, your opinion
I would humbly submit calkey as an alternative. It’s the best interface I’ve seen out of anything on the fediverse.
I spun up a Calckey instance a week or so ago. It’s leaps and bounds better than Mastodon.
cool.
That’s a lot of people that are realizing Silicon Valley is full of shit
Certainly full of detached CEO’s
This is great! But generally can’t see Mastadon overtaking any other major social platforms until it introduces an equivalent of For you feed from Twitter. The days of following specific people and hashtags is over, it’s tedious and I don’t give a shit about 3/4s of the feed.
2017-2020 Twitter was absolutely peak Twitter algorithm wise and thousands of users want that exact experience back, yet nobody will provide it.
Mastodon adding their version of Tweekdeck was what set me to completely abandon Twitter.
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So true
Ribbit
Advertising requires money. Its a slippery slope that’ll lead us down the same path as Reddit again. We’re better than that.
The fediverse isn’t driven by profit, so growth for the sake of growth isn’t necessary. Word of mouth will let the fediverse platforms grow naturally and sustainably
It would be a mistake to not realise that they operate in the same virtual space as profit driven corporations though. They should still be professionally run with proper pr and marketing. Whether that is volunteer led, or alternative funding like Wikipedia or charging corporate clients etc.
Personally, I’d like corporate integration to fund the free part, but with no additional benefit. Just the same access that private users get for free. Otherwise it’s a slippery slope.
Hard to regulate though. How woukd you verify, who would verify? Could be like fair trade products, whereby there is a certifying body. User instances could decide to only federate with corporate instances that are registered with this non profit. They would pay for their access, like Reddit is asking from their apps, except actually reasonable costs. This could be disbursed to large instances with over X amounts of users to fund their computing needs.
I don’t think there’s any advertising budget being spent on these fedi platforms, which makes it impressive they’ve grown so much from media exposure and word of mouth.
We growth with big corps big mistakes
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I’m doing my part!
I’m doing my part!
A great win for decentralization and censorship resistant networks!
And that’s ACTIVE USERS
Is it recommended to create an account specifically for Mastodon or just use your Lemmy-account? Will it fuck up my feeds/subs in some way if I only use one account for both? (I’m new to the whole fediverse thing)
I’d have a separate Maston and Lemmy. Because they present differently. And are different systems for the most part.
Highly irrelevant song to celebrate Mastodon’s milestone!
Wow, two million users, congratulations Mastodon!
Threads is at 100 million, so if they federate they will still be completely drowned out.
If i remember correctly, Threads just uses your pre-existing Instagram account so 108 million is a veeeery theoretical number. We will see how many users actually move to Threads and whether our instances don’t block Threads instances.
Threads has 100m phantom accounts. A lot of them are bots. Who knows how many of those are real users.
Well, it would best to compare apples to apples, there are 8M total Mastodon accounts to 108M Threads accounts.
For active users if we assume the same active ratio (probably not, but I couldn’t find any data for Threads on that from a 1 minute search), then it would be 2 million to 27 million, which is small but it wouldn’t “completely” drown out Mastodon.
And our communities will remain strong. The people growing and caring for a free and open Internet will always be here as the minority to large corporations and lowest common denominators of society.
I believe it was the official mastodon blog that compared Meta advising xmpp the way they’ll abuse the fediverse but we will stand strong.
Threads created a shadow account for every user on Instagram, so, I dunno. I’m guessing most of those are just dummy accounts that will remain forever inactive.
Just saw that on fedidb, Hooray! Hehe
