I love the concept of Mastodon, but I feel it inherits many of the problems of Twitter. I only used it for about a month, but I encountered far too much mob mentality and pearl clutching for my health and left. I like free discussion, and I feel the current Mastodon userbase means I'd have to host my own echo chamber to avoid theirs.
Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server
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#162How do things stand on account portability? If I sign up at a mastodon server, build an audience and network there, but later if the server admin changes its policies in unfavorable directions, can I migrate to a new server with all my contacts and reputation intact - even without the old admin's cooperation?
Honest question: is this something that is stopping you from joining/getting more active/build an audience? If it is, have you considered running your own instance?
I run my own instance in a convoluted way - I added ActivityPub source and sink support to my own webapp. But every user deserves account portability, not just those who know how to deploy and maintain a Mastodon instance.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are they including Gab users in the MAU count?
Gab is separate, and significantly larger than the entire fediverse combined.
Do you have a source for that? My impression is that Gab is significantly smaller than the Fediverse (Wikipedia says ~100,000 active users).
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gab is separate, and significantly larger than the entire fediverse combined.
Do you have a source for that? My impression is that Gab is significantly smaller than the Fediverse (Wikipedia says ~100,000 active users).
Well I'm the CTO there so I am a source... but you don't have to trust me really, you can check https://www.similarweb.com/website/gab.com/ and https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gab.com#section_traffic and draw your own conclusions.
For some things, Wikipedia is a really bad source. Especially about things they hate.
Re: Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server
#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have a source for that? My impression is that Gab is significantly smaller than the Fediverse (Wikipedia says ~100,000 active users).
Well I'm the CTO there so I am a source... but you don't have to trust me really, you can check https://www.similarweb.com/website/gab.com/ and https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gab.com#section_traffic and draw your own conclusions. For some things, Wikipedia is a really bad source. Especially about things they hate.
Well, the source is The Interecpt, based on leaked internal data, which I trust a lot more than stat aggregators like Alexa. If you're the CTO then you could just answer the question: how many accounts (or unique IPs, if multiple accounts is common) have posted something in the past month?