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Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by emptysongglass »

sbuttgereit wrote: post #33
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 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. " So long as you lean to progressive worldviews and see insult slinging at those that don't see your way not as being toxic, but rather just expressions of righteous indignation... sure, I could buy that line. A quick perusal…

As someone who'd consider themselves progressive by the yardstick of 10 years ago but not measured to the new progressives of today, the most visible toxic-but-cozy-because-our-silo was that BIPOC people don't need to use content warning (CW) labels when site guidelines say use CW labels on political toots. The reason given was that white people must not be able to opt out of the BIPOC experience of political outrage.

The New Left has become unrecognizable to me as a mode of liberal thinking and both sides of the political fence in the US appear to have escaped into a hole of myopic beliefs that mirror each other in their intensity and desire for control.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by zztop44 »

mise_en_place wrote: post #79
devn0ll wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I might be off-base, but I feel this is a very American thing to do: argue. In school there a even debate classes yes? Much better, I think, is to have a truth finding conversation together. Perhaps coming from different sides of the story, but always on the search for trying to find common ground, the truth, science, and an open mind to be changed by those things. And not see the whole thing as a match to be won you…

Are you European? Wasn’t it your whole cultural tradition to argue? Perhaps your modern culture has been corrupted somehow where you can no longer have meaningful debates. The Socratic method is an argument based system.

Depends what you mean by “argument”. I wouldn’t say the Socratic dialogues resemble Twitter.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by input_sh »

textread wrote: post #76

Putting this into context:- Twitter currently has ~400M users, 50% of them DAUs [1] [1] https://backlinko.com/twitter-users I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. ~ Nelson Mandela

Except it's not currently, it's from over a year ago ("Updated Jan. 05, 2022"). Back when Twitter still had an obligation to share DAUs because it was a public company.

Nobody outside Twitter knows the current amount of DAUs. Whichever number you find post Q3 last year is a pure guess.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by mise_en_place »

zztop44 wrote: post #82
mise_en_place wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you European? Wasn’t it your whole cultural tradition to argue? Perhaps your modern culture has been corrupted somehow where you can no longer have meaningful debates. The Socratic method is an argument based system.

Depends what you mean by “argument”. I wouldn’t say the Socratic dialogues resemble Twitter.

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Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by hcks »

devn0ll wrote: post #75
kornhole wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you follow or engage with me, you will probably feel some 'toxicity'. I like to argue with people and see argument as a productive way to enhance understanding. I follow many people with whom I often disagree. You make it what you want. Just don't get bothered by people blocking you from time to time.

I might be off-base, but I feel this is a very American thing to do: argue. In school there a even debate classes yes? Much better, I think, is to have a truth finding conversation together. Perhaps coming from different sides of the story, but always on the search for trying to find common ground, the truth, science, and an open mind to be changed by those things. And not see the whole thing as a match to be won you…

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Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by input_sh »

cogwheels wrote: post #56
tptacek wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Twitter's daily active user count has gone up since Musk took over. If people were chased off, they either came back or others filled up the numbers. Anecdotally, I've enjoyed Twitter a lot more since his takeover. They've relaxed their rules and unbanned a lot of people who I'd missed seeing on the platform. Musk does seem to be at least partially keeping his promise of improving the free speech aspect of the site.

> Twitter's daily active user count has gone up since Musk took over.

Hello brand new account, do you work for Twitter? If not, how do you know?

In another comment you ask to see Mastodon's active user count. Where's Twitter's? Personally I'd love to see a line chart of Twitter's DAU for the past six months. Like way more than I'm interested in Mastodon's.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by Semaphor »

devn0ll wrote: post #75
kornhole wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you follow or engage with me, you will probably feel some 'toxicity'. I like to argue with people and see argument as a productive way to enhance understanding. I follow many people with whom I often disagree. You make it what you want. Just don't get bothered by people blocking you from time to time.

I might be off-base, but I feel this is a very American thing to do: argue. In school there a even debate classes yes? Much better, I think, is to have a truth finding conversation together. Perhaps coming from different sides of the story, but always on the search for trying to find common ground, the truth, science, and an open mind to be changed by those things. And not see the whole thing as a match to be won you…

> I might be off-base, but I feel this is a very American thing to do: argue.

I’m a German, back in school (20+ years ago) I was taught that arguing, when done in good faith, helps everyone. So I disagree heavily with your characterization of arguing as American.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by UberFly »

rakoo wrote: post #32
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.…

Why does it matter how fast it is growing ?

I'm guessing you want people actually coming to the mall or all the businesses will leave.
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