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Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by nforgerit »

rvz wrote: post #8

10 million 'registered users' not 'daily active users' in 7 years. Even in some of the comments in the post are skeptical about the usage of those registered accounts. In comparison to Twitter (Since Mastodon zealots often pitch it as a 'Twitter alternative' somehow) 7 years after it launched, it had well over 250M+ total users with well over 150M daily actives. [0] Even Nostr has 6M total users in less than 7 years.…

Food for thought for you: Mastodon doesn't have to care about growth rate. It's really weird to compare its growth rate to Twitter since it doesn't care at all about pushing interaction KPIs up to sell ads and emotions.

What I can see, it grew a lot in the last 6 months and if a user's timeline is all empty then it's because the user missed to actively grow their network which is a bit annoying (search and hand-pick) but all in all is absolutely worth the time.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by haunter »

nforgerit wrote: post #18

After about 6 months hosting my own little private Mastodon instance, I can say the following things: (1) Whoever cares about that but the atmosphere is nice, cozy, exciting and creative. Zero toxicity and probably several magnitudes more meaningful conversations with people from all around the world. This apparently comes from the kinds of people I could find and connect with. (2) Hosting is relatively easy. I think…

> Zero toxicity

ymmv. The mastodon.lol (which was a safe space instance) drama over Hogwarts Legacy [0] was a very good reminder that the platform doesn’t matter, its the people.

0, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34748195

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by krapp »

Method-X wrote: post #6

Doesn't look like there are many active users.

Mastodon isn't designed to incentivize the addiction loops that drive traffic on Twitter and other social media sites. Quality over quantity isn't a bad thing.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by c23gooey »

tptacek wrote: post #11
rvz wrote: post #8

10 million 'registered users' not 'daily active users' in 7 years. Even in some of the comments in the post are skeptical about the usage of those registered accounts. In comparison to Twitter (Since Mastodon zealots often pitch it as a 'Twitter alternative' somehow) 7 years after it launched, it had well over 250M+ total users with well over 150M daily actives. [0] Even Nostr has 6M total users in less than 7 years.…

The years Mastodon operated before Musk chased millions of people off Twitter don't count. In the status quo ante of Musk's takeover, Mastodon may never have been viable, but Musk did take over Twitter.

Agreed, there's a few instances of this sort of thing that come to mind. Sometimes you have a good thing, but it's not until some external thing changes that the right conditions for uptake are met. One such example is the game Among Us which was out for two years before covid hit and it found exponential growth after that.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by lapcat »

rvz wrote: post #8

10 million 'registered users' not 'daily active users' in 7 years. Even in some of the comments in the post are skeptical about the usage of those registered accounts. In comparison to Twitter (Since Mastodon zealots often pitch it as a 'Twitter alternative' somehow) 7 years after it launched, it had well over 250M+ total users with well over 150M daily actives. [0] Even Nostr has 6M total users in less than 7 years.…

Most of my former Twitter followers/following in the Apple developer ecosystem have migrated to Mastodon and are very active there now. These are the people I joined Twitter for in the first place, back in the 2000s. Mastodon is definitely a Twitter alternative for us.

I personally don't care about "sports Twitter" or "political Twitter" or "weird Twitter", etc. They can all stay on Twitter as far I'm concerned. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ My own opinion is that Twitter itself was much better in the early days, before all of the celebrities invaded.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by smcl »

benatkin wrote: post #19
Method-X wrote: post #6

Doesn't look like there are many active users.

Perhaps. Anecdotally, I was 5 times as active on twitter as I am on Mastodon. Now I am not on twitter at all. So I'm more active on Mastodon than on twitter right now, but not super active. If you think that's a victory for twitter, fair enough. It got so much critical mass that it's hard to replicate off of Twitter. But as weeks keep passing by without me going back to twitter, I think that's a win for Mastodon.

This is the same as me. I switched from Twitter to Mastodon, use the platform less overall but am happier as a result.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by jghn »

Method-X wrote: post #6

Doesn't look like there are many active users.

I almost never log on to my Mastodon account. When I do, I always say I should do so more as the vast majority of the people I really enjoyed following on Twitter are on there. But the thing is, I just hate the Mastodon UI. It's so clunky. And the lack of things like centralized search are a big issue for me. I dislike the federated nature of it. In short, it's just not to me. Which sucks, as that's where a lot of the content I want to see currently lives. But such is life.

Meanwhile, even though my Twitter feed is a shell of what it once was, I wind up there several times a day. And it's not "because of the algorithm", I have been using the algorithm-free feed for years now.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by seba_dos1 »

jghn wrote: post #27
Method-X wrote: post #6

Doesn't look like there are many active users.

I almost never log on to my Mastodon account. When I do, I always say I should do so more as the vast majority of the people I really enjoyed following on Twitter are on there. But the thing is, I just hate the Mastodon UI. It's so clunky. And the lack of things like centralized search are a big issue for me. I dislike the federated nature of it. In short, it's just not to me. Which sucks, as that's where a lot of th…

> But the thing is, I just hate the Mastodon UI.

Which one?

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