Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)

atmur@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Facebook forgot it existed too, they just recently made it possible to delete threads accounts without deleting Instagram

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  • deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Meta realized the same thing we all realized when we came here: userbase entrenchment is significantly more difficult to overcome nowadays than it was back in the 2000s when Facebook managed to pull everyone over from Myspace.

    Legitimately, it seems like the average user nowadays is so hellbent against even a modicum of inconvenience or a slightly less populated environment that they will accept literally anything. The big tech and social media platforms couldn’t shake off users if they tried anymore. They can do every every shitty, anti-user, anti-consumer thing under the sun and users will bitch about it, but never, ever try an alternative.

    And that’s why they don’t listen to feedback anymore. What’s the point?

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    • niisyth@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is just factually untrue with the numbers lemmy by itself has being having. Not to say anything of Mastodon and et al. There wouldn’t be a mass exodus of highly engaged folks from reddit to lemmy if users just didn’t move anymore. Threads got big but then instantly deflated to a much lower number immediately.

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      • ericjmorey@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Active accounts on Lemmy instances is in the tens of thousands. I like it for the most part, but it’s not really a significant part of the 1.5 million in the graphic.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Threads was built on top of Instagram infra (essentially Instagram but for text posts) so it’s not surprising the two accounts were intertwined. Would have made it easy to roll out an MVP (minimum viable product) when there was a need for it, and quickly iterate on it after launch. The original launch didn’t even include a web version as it wasn’t finished yet.

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• Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d like to see the breakout in the Fediverse for Mastodon vs. all others.

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  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thales was kind enough to provide a link:

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    • aphonefriend@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What is a misskey?

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      • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Japanese fedi server

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      • magmaus3@szmer.info ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        cooler mastodon

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    • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Peertube is bigger than I thought!

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  • thal3s@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    fedidb.org

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    • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks!

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m surpsied Kbin is so low.

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      • thal3s@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The project still lacks an API meaning there’s no mobile apps, so I imagine that hinders adoption.

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      • cmbabul@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m actually not, I was really excited for Kbin during the migration and just got on .world until it was more fleshed out. But 6 months later I think it missed the first boat out of Reddit and may not catch on now

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• CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Fediverse is going to get a lot bigger once Meta turns on federation for Threads.

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  • drkt@feddit.dk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or it’ll kill it!

    RIP XMPP

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    • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How? XMPP still works anyway.

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      • drkt@feddit.dk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh yeah it works so I guess by that metric it’s not dead

        Of course, silly me

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• TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mastodon is by the biggest contributor to Fediverse as a whole. Has been adopted by tons of Orgs like EU, W3C, Verge, Flipboard, etc.

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• njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The fact that I regularly recognize my fellow Lemmings by username makes it feel small, but its not too hard to find a community full of strangers either.

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• oce@jlai.lu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Didn’t FB used some shady practice to make their users fall into Threads without noticing?

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  • hangonasecond@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think this was a misunderstanding of a bit of shitty functionality in threads. If you had Instagram and made a linked threads account, you would see follow suggestions for people who hadn’t made an account yet. It was basically “if this person makes a threads account I want to be following them”. I don’t believe it meant those suggested people had a shadow account or anything like that though. Still sketchy and probably drove inorganic growth, but I believe the number of users is counting the number of people opting into opening an account.

    It’s just naturally going to be incredibly high, because so many people use Instagram and would’ve been exposed.

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• deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m just curious what you thought might have happened to Snapchat? What app took its place in your estimation?

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  • atmur@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think I got Snapchat and Vine mixed up or combined in my head. I’ve never used either one, I thought it shut down years ago, but what I’m remembering is Vine shutting down.

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Vine was basically TikTok with shorter videos. I feel like it was a bit ahead of its time - phone cameras weren’t as good when it launched, and a lot of people didn’t have enough data to watch a feed full of videos.

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