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Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by peterashford »

nforgerit wrote: post #61
sbuttgereit wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I'm a casual user without any great motivation for learning the arcane ways of "The Fediverse"... someone just looking for someway to get into this Mastodon thing I keep hearing about: a normal, everyday user. I'm going to probably go to some search engine and type in "Mastodon" or "Mastodon social network". Using DuckDuckGo, many of the first links show up pointing to mastodon.social or server lookups operated fr…

Your link is pointing to the general mastodon.social instance and not to birds.town. To see local birds.town posts, go to [0]. Looks like birds-only to me w/o any politics, tho I'm not aware of any of these birds' political preferences. And generally, whenever there's people annoying me, I just unfollow/mute/block them - problem solved. [0] https://birds.town/public/local

Yeah. Blocking / muting is required to shape ANY social media feed to your liking.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

#102

Post by peterashford »

emptysongglass wrote: post #81
sbuttgereit wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

" 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…

That's true of the instance you were looking at.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

#103

Post by sussmannbaka »

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.…

I don’t really care if it has taken off - I get WAY more engagement on my posts and so does pretty much everyone on my timeline despite having a fraction of the followers we had on twitter. I guess it hasn’t taken off for celeb gossip or professional brainworm-havers but somehow I can press the button and somebody gets to actually see my post.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

#104

Post by peterashford »

sbuttgereit wrote: post #58
nforgerit wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do understand (and suffer from it from time to time, too) the reflex to put labels on bubbles. But in this case, I'm probably the wrong addressee since I'm regularly confronting myself with world views spanning over allover the political spectrum. I'm actively researching for data and arguments from other bubbles than mine and regularly learn something new through that. With toxicity I was referring to the ill-fate…

We're talking about the same toxicity. I do agree there is less shitposting, but there's a fair amount of it nonetheless. Many other of those activist posts are toned down here... because I expect their expectations are they are largely preaching to the choir. But just scrolling through the "toots" (again, at mastodon.social) on the main landing page I get...: " New Yorkers yelling at nazis is fun. Proud Boys bloodie…

You're doing the equivalent of finding one web site on the internet and saying "This Internet is useless! It's only about cats and I like dogs" There are many Mastodon instances. They are different.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

#105

Post by numpad0 »

davnicwil wrote: post #7

Anyone know how a decentralised system like mastadon can meaningfully assess user count? In terms of accounts corresponding to real, distinct people? And has such an analysis been done to produce the numbers this account is reporting?

Twitter users are routinely making new sub-accounts to manage persona and relationships, so social media account counts don't correspond to skull counts anyway. Hacked Mastodon instances may report entirely bogus numbers too.

But humans are nice, generally speaking... it should work as an indication that there are most likely more than few millions who've signed up at at least one of these instances.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by peterashford »

xigoi wrote: post #95
rainonmoon wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're citing examples from a fairly homogenous set of inputs, one that was largely fed by Twitter refugees. The nature of the Fediverse is that it's as disparate as the web itself; you're starting with a fundamentally incorrect premise by referring to "Mastodon" at all. If you're trying to say "Mastodon" is ideologically any one way or the other, you're hosed from the start. It sounds like our political values proba…

The difference is that web browsers don't block you from visiting websites that your favorite site's owner doesn't want you to see.

Instances don't block you from going to a different instance.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

#108

Post by Escapado »

wolverine876 wrote: post #97
emptysongglass wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

What forum are you talking about. All of Mastadon? Doesn't each instance have its own rules? > As someone who'd consider themselves progressive by the yardstick of 10 years ago but not measured to the new progressives of today ... > The New Left has become unrecognizable to me That's an expected phenomenon. What was progressive yesterday becomes conservative today - think of women's rights, interracial marriage, etc.…

I would consider myself left leaning and still wish to see a lot of progress and change but I disagree with quite a few talking points of what might be considered the current “zeitgeist” of the far left. Would I consider misgendendering a _violent_ hate crime? No. Am I for more inclusion and free choice of gender identity? Yes. Do I think that pure socialism will save humanity? No. Do I think it’s bad we have people on the planet with more money than multiple countries combined? Yes.

I would even argue most progressives are seeing flaws and don’t accept them and push for change but you don’t need to be “radical”(as in further from the status quo) in your views to do that and it doesn’t make you less of a progressive - you are just trying to push to a different spot on the manifold.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

#109

Post by peterashford »

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…

Use an app?

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

#110

Post by lazzlazzlazz »

Individual Mastodon instances have already begun exhibiting insane behavior, and relying on someone else's fiefdom isn't for me. Social media should give full control to the user on top of a credibly neutral layer.
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