This is the saddest, most insular cope I’ve read all day.
Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users.
noctivius@lemm.ee 2 months ago
another trash platform its just matter of a time, use mastodon and fediverse to don’t migrate again in few years
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
And how many users does Mastodon have?
pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 2 months ago
About a million active users each month
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 2 months ago
which is less than bsky, but more than lemmy.
I think a lot of people get sucked into the idea that more is better. But that isn’t necessarily the case. I don’t think any of us really want to talk to a million different people anyway. We just want to talk to a suitable subset.
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
But with less people, the chance of you finding the subsets that interests you or fit your interests better is much lower, and that’s one of the main issue.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 2 months ago
Roughly 10 million, I would consider 1/3 he users very significant for a FOSS alternative.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Those numbers are small in the grand scheme of things, but for a newer and open source community developed project those are absurd numbers, ESPECIALLY because it isn’t a flash in the pan, many of those users call the fediverse home and use it daily.
jetsetdorito@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Federation is too confusing for the average bear. the success of bsky is the best thing for getting people off twitter
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
It is the path of least resistance because it just goes in circles
Internetexplorer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Does it have anything to do with crypto and decentralisation? I heard it did but it doesn’t seem like it does at all. Disappointing
mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mastodon and the fediverse are nerd shit with massive usability issues. Even I gave up on Mastodon and I would consider myself far more willing to put up with shit than the average user will ever be. The mass will - never - migrate to the fediverse and in many ways, especially looking at moderation issues, that is probably a good thing.
RxBrad@infosec.pub 2 months ago
I love Mastodon. It’s easily my favorite & most-used social media platform right now.
But I’m also a huge damn nerd.
I honestly can’t say I’d recommend it to anyone that isn’t also a huge damn nerd, because they just won’t find stuff they want.
“You want sports? We don’t have much of that, but check out the Proxmox server in this guy’s basement!”
MalMen@masto.pt 2 months ago
@RxBrad @mostlikelyaperson yeah, feel the same..
Well when I first start using facebook it was the same, the normies follow after if the platform is worth it
anon593839@lemmy.world 2 months ago
🤣 I love Mastodon as well… I also have a Proxmox server in my basement.
Scrollone@feddit.it 2 months ago
It’s sad but I agree. Lemmy works well, especially if you use third-party apps such as Voyager, but Mastodon… is so badly thought. I can navigate it because I’m a technical person, but normal people will never be able to understand how to use it, what are instances, why it asks me to type my instance when I want to follow someone, etc.
AbackDeckWARLORD@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s interesting what a bubble lemmy users are in. There is a reason it is not taking off and did not replace reddit for many people that tried it. It’s way too daunting and confusing for the average user, same with mastodon.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Yeah, we don’t have millions in VC or private equity funding to dump into marketing and to smooze with the tech press enough for them to actually do their jobs as journalists and cover the fediverse with a modicum more of nuance then “Mastodon is just for nerds, even the Mastodon CEO says so! Use Bluesky, it is corporate and its marketing promises what the fediverse already has so in that sense they are equivalent and lets be honest that means you should use Bluesky.”
bizza@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
The masses will either eventually migrate to ActivityPub, or have their entire digital lives consumed by oligarchs. It’s just a fight between finally deciding that maybe ease-of-use doesn’t mean “good,” and losing every ounce of your identity and ability to express your thoughts and feelings.
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Good, I don’t need the mass. Social media is cancer anyways.