Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)
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#3https://api.joinmastodon.org/statistics
2023-04-15: Active Users 1199771
2023-03-15: Active Users 1247487
Re: Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)
#4https://api.joinmastodon.org/statistics 2023-04-15: Active Users 1199771 2023-03-15: Active Users 1247487
oh my god a product isn't growing, it must be garbage
Re: Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)
#5Re: Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)
#6Twitter has one killer feature: lots of users. Everything else is just detail.
Re: Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
oh my god a product isn't growing, it must be garbage
user growth is almost imperative for social media products. No one wants to be on a dead social media.
Strangely enough there's in those few millions there's enough people to have interesting conversations with. ~12 million is larger than population of quite a few countries, where people still manage to have social lives somehow. With just a relatively small amount of followers you'll have engaging conversations on Mastodon/Fediverse. While on Twitter/Birdsite the engagement, unless you are an influencer, is surprisingly low and responses are very low-quality in my experience. But YMMV of course.
Re: Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)
#8There is a reason why WhatsApp is still being used widely when there are better alternatives it's because people don't switch apps collectively at once.
Re: Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)
#9Twitter has one killer feature: lots of users. Everything else is just detail.
Depends what your purpose is. If you want to be a broadcaster, have a message to sell, then there's a larger audience. If you want to have good conversations, you don't need many people. Who talks to millions of people in a lively back and forth?
Re: Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
oh my god a product isn't growing, it must be garbage
user growth is almost imperative for social media products. No one wants to be on a dead social media.
for a product with angry VCs breathing down your neck, yes. For a protocol/ecosystem run without profit motive? Not really. IRC has existed for how many decades now? And of course those stats are misleadingly timed given that it's up about 3x compared to a year ago.