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How many users does the "Fediverse" have exactly?
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10,892,545 according to FediDB
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Monthly "active users" seems to range from 1.6 to 1.8 million. Doesn't seem like it will be a viable alternative to major social media sites
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That's quite a large base. I think they could grow it.
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i highly doubt it
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I say this as someone who uses the fediverse, that userbase is the most neurodivergent and often insufferable groups of that size most of which refuse to even federate with eachother. It's going nowhere. Plus there's way too many fricking loli instances you need to filter for it to ever go mainstream.
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I imagine this is something people used to say about reddit. Including the loli shit lmao (shout out violentacrez)
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There's a huge difference between those two. In decentralized services you have to shop around for a server that federates with the other servers you want. With a centralized system like reddit's you don't need to do that; you just don't sub to /r/jailbait or whatever. In the case of the fediverse model you have people who run instances who will defederate you or be defederated by their owner for any reason arbitrarily and your account there cannot communicate with others. Some of these reasons include (for some) simply being a single user instance or allowing opinions the 2nd party server owner disagrees with; it also has the trend of defederating servers who even federate with servers you don't like. It's designed in a way that almost fuels fragmentation and makes it functionally impossible to be on a server where you can see and talk to the whole network given human behavior. It's naturally bound to break up into different sectors that could but don't communicate based on the few hundred or thousand people running the servers. At least a centralized thing like twitter is never going to stop you from interacting with others, short of them blocking you. So naturally dumb insulated communities form where they largely don't allow disagreement join together and don't associate with any others; the network is fricked, it's fundamentally broken.
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it's a self-balkanizing system
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Who's that?
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At least violentacrez didn't hide behind 10000 year old dragons that just look like 8yo girls.
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Compared to rDrama and Wpd yes. I think these sites are too exclusivist to grow beyond a certain point. Someone commented here that antifa types view anyone to their right as fascist. This article is calling a billion+ people nazis. Not a smart way to shill your site(s) an alternative to the le evil megacorps by calling most of the world nazis.
Neurotic people will flock to this giving it an initial boost but (hopefully) they will stagnate if this is the attitude they carry.
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Actually, lmbo. Monthly active users is down while new accounts sky rocket. Absolute garbage that no one wants.
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Do daily or monthly active users, not how many people made an account and left because it's shit.
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At least 1
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