Ah Linkedin, the social network every professional has to have and almost no one participates in unless they’re looking for or offering a job.
Mastodon has 13 million.
Not sure where you got the stat for Fediverse as a whole on that.https://fediverse.observer/stats
Probably using the monthly active users.13mil seems to be total users.
It does look like Mastodon has around 9 million itself, that’s a nice size. It also makes this graph wrong.
9 million is total user accounts. Not monthly active user accounts. Facebook has 3 billion monthly active user accounts. The chart is showing active monthly user accounts.
Nope, the link is for monthly active users, that chart is messed up.
I feel like the Fediverse hasn’t yet reached the Eternal September moment, and I’m happy for that. A smaller footprint means we get to have our own culture.
On the other hand, even though it means losing this culture, I would like to see greater general adoption of the fediverse and decentralized social media in general. Sure, there will likely be some big-name domains serving fediverse instances, the same way email is primarily served by Gmail et al, but anyone should be able to spin up their own instance and interact as well. I don’t believe Internet communication should be locked behind various walled gardens, and people should re-acclimatize themselves to a version of the Internet where anyone can host and contribute.
I’m curious on how a federation would handle an Eternal September. If we [the community] play our cards right, we could get “newbie instances” - in those the newbies would either adapt themselves to the rest of the culture of the Fediverse or forge their own, in a non-conflicting way with the others. It would be kind of cool.
Same here
Well said
I want more people in the fediverse too
But not at the expense of this culture too
But we have /u/stamets so the rest is moot.
We are small but cooler than the other ones
Good to see we’re not that smol
Looks small to me
As someone posted, this is straight up wrong. Why would you source wikipedia? https://fediverse.observer/stats
- Mastodon is almost 9 million/month
- Lemmy is a little over 2 million/month
of which 1.1M are alien[.]top bots mirroring shit from reddit
- you can block them
- Reddit is mirroring a shit ton of stuff from twitter, youtube, etc.
- All social media has a lot of bots, I’m betting there are a lot less here because we’re not on many people’s radars yet.
What you say is true, but the person you replied to has a point. That site has nearly as many accounts as the rest of Lemmy combined, and most of the sites those bot users post to hardly leave any room for genuine discussion from real Lemmy users. You won’t get a reply from any user registered to alien.top. It’s basically Reddit with a coat of paint.
To me it’s a misrepresentation to include alien.top users as part of Lemmy’s userbase.
It’s a fine picture of various platforms, but I’d have trouble calling Twitch, Discord, and YouTube “social media.” Discord is basically IRC with more bells and whistles and no one ever called IRC “social media.”
IRC is social media
There, now someone has said it
Social media wasn’t a thing back when IRC was big but it did basically the same as modern social media sites do today: people connected and talked. And I would argue that Twitch/Discord/YouTube do different things than Facebook or Twitter in the end all of those places are there to connect and talk about stuff (and to harvest money and data).
I’m actually surprised by how large the fediverse is. I thought it was more like 50,000 at most.
It’s even a wrong stat, there’s 13 million, monthly active users.
And yet Facebook is the one platform I use the least often. I just don’t see the appeal, let alone why I’d ever give a flying crap about what other people are doing. I only have a facebook page because my other family members use it to post and keep in touch.
