No, it’s not enough. We should be encouraging to have people posting more, not less.”
Host them on your instance, then.
I gave a very specific example to illustrate where Mastodon had become more relevant than Twitter. Again: it’s not about absolute numbers.
I just checked the first two pages of news.ycombinator.com
No Twitter thread, no Mastodon thread. The closest links are blog posts from Medium or Substack, or personal blogs.
rglullis@communick.news 16 hours ago
Hummm, gladly?
I’m running more than 15 instances for communities. I was running alien.top which at one hosted 600k accounts with more than 2M posts + comments, a lot of them being sent to the topic-specific instances. I’m constantly reminding people that the instances are there, and that I can create communities for anyone that need it.
Cherry-picking data points is not the way to make an argument. That just makes you seem clueless and/or biased.
If you really want to refute my statement, you’ll need to take a look at all submissions in the past two years and compare the number of posts to twitter vs the number of posts to any Mastodon instance.