Comment on After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance
mke@programming.dev 1 month agoJust for the record, I know little about gotosocial, but I’ve looked into Misskey a fair bit and I think it’s irrelevant here.
FediDB data on active users seems off (a low ~12k MAU), but even if the real number is much greater, most are on the flagship instance (misskey.io) which has multiple CSAM censures on fediseer.
Put another way, it’s almost counterproductive to include Misskey in these topics because simply federating with its biggest instance could be a liability for most 1st world western instances.
I doubt the Swiss government would get much out of Misskey.
cabbage@piefed.social 1 month ago
I just mentioned them because they're microblog sites, so in theory they do the exact same thing as Mastodon. The number of Mastodon users doesn't matter; the number of people on Fediverse platforms compatible with Mastodon matters.
So Lemmy users are not very helpful, but Mbin users maybe more so. Or Friendica.
The point is just that the number of Mastodon users is, in theory, irrelevant, as you don't just communicate with Mastodon users. Maybe misskey was a bad example, I don't know anything about it.