cross-posted from: lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/494473
Compared against the predominant incumbent social media platforms, the fediverse is very small.
information sources:
Why Facebook sucks.
Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)
Submitted 11 months ago by jersan@lemmy.whynotdrs.org to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 11 months ago
joel_feila@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What percent of humans use facebook! When take out children to young to use fb, people with out internet, what is the actual percent.
SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just Dave and my aunt
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sure, but Dave is a heavyweight in social media:
Dave was bragging to his boss one day, “You know, I know everyone there is to know. Just name someone, anyone, and I know them.”
Tired of his boasting, his boss called his bluff, “OK, Dave, how about Tom Cruise?”
“No dramas boss, Tom and I are old friends, and I can prove it.” So Dave and his boss fly out to Hollywood and knock on Tom Cruise’s door, and Tom Cruise shouts,
“Dave! What’s happening? Great to see you! Come on in for a beer!”
Although impressed, Dave’s boss is still skeptical. After they leave Cruise’s house, he tells Dave that he thinks him knowing Cruise was just lucky.
“No, no, just name anyone else,” Dave says.
“President Obama,” his boss quickly retorts.
“Yup,” Dave says, “Old buddies, let’s fly out to Washington,” and off they go.
At the White House, Obama spots Dave on the tour and motions him and his boss over, saying, “Dave, what a surprise, I was just on my way to a meeting, but you and your friend come on in and let’s have a beer first and catch up.”
Well, the boss is very shaken by now but still not totally convinced. After they leave the White House grounds he expresses his doubts to Dave, who again implores him to name anyone else.
“Pope Francis,” his boss replies.
“Sure!” says Dave. “I’ve known the Pope for years.” So off they fly to Rome.
Dave and his boss are assembled with the masses at the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square when Dave says, “This will never work. I can’t catch the Pope’s eye among all these people. Tell you what, I know all the guards so let me just go upstairs and I’ll come out on the balcony with the Pope.” He disappears into the crowd headed towards the Vatican.
Sure enough, half an hour later Dave emerges with the Pope on the balcony, but by the time Dave returns, he finds that his boss has had a heart attack and is surrounded by paramedics.
Making his way to his boss’ side, Dave asks him, “What happened?”
His boss looks up and says, “It was the final straw… you and the Pope came out on to the balcony and the man next to me said, who the fuck is that on the balcony with Dave?”
sndrtj@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Snap is still alive? I haven’t heard name in quite a while.
nixcamic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Don’t worry pretty soon Reddit will join us.
Sheeple@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]Slimy_hog@programming.dev 11 months ago
How many times do you plan to post this same damn comment?
nixcamic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They have a lot of users voting and viewing content though.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I like your optimism, but I’m not sure I share it. I suppose it depends on your definition of ‘soon’ and ‘tiny’.
match@pawb.social 11 months ago
hell yeah
lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I was reading the Wikipedia page linked just an hour ago.
and I was surprised to see over a billion daily users on Facebook. I used to think at best that’d be in millions.I understand now that what do people mean when they day social media’s amplification of a certain message can have great impact. I used to take it lightly, partly because I an totally detached to any of these big platforms.
and being on Lemmy is a wholly different experience.
Panda@programming.dev 11 months ago
So this is the Pluto of the internet?
To be honest, despite the smaller community, I feel more at home in the Fediverse than ever I did in those big, bloated, commercial communities.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 11 months ago
You want to tell us something?
Toto@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s our Pale Blue Dot
lefaucet@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Wow! Wonder if Facebook will dissapear as quickly as MySpace
xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Quickly? Granted, it was over a decade ago, but it took 6-8 years for Myspace to die proper , by my recollection.
I still wish I could bop over there and check in on bands that probably imploded a decade ago.
CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee 11 months ago
So that’s why Instagram is the way it is, i assumed it was fairly small but it has attracted a rather toxic userbase and i don’t actually enjoy it anymore.
It used to be a place where i could share my joys and people with similar interests would follow me because they enjoy my joys too.
But now it’s just tiktok, at least i assume seeing it’s all reels and loud noises.
Kuba@programming.dev 11 months ago
But now it’s just tiktok, at least i assume seeing it’s all reels and loud noises.
The comments under reels are more toxic than 10tons of nuclear waste
dan@upvote.au 11 months ago
There seems to be an unwritten rule that once a video platform reaches a certain number of users, the comments become toxic.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if there was more Fediverse users than listed.
flathead@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Neither would I - you can browse Lemmy (and mastodon I think) pretty extensively without logging in. I also think we are at the start of a long term transition towards decentralization of media generally.
In terms of content I like Lemmy. I do see how concentrated the user base is - but I don’t see it getting smaller - if anything I see it growing slowly but surely. In addition to organic growth, there will probably be events that drive massive migration to the fediverse - like reddit’s nonsense but from different or more diverse sources - some media attention or a major celebrity plug and things could get crazy pretty fast. The platform will probably need a lot of extra TLC to scale rapidly if that happens.
When you see the major media companies start to stand up Mastodon instances - which I also think is going to happen eventually - expansion of the fediverse seems all but inevitable. I would be interested to see what that chart looks like in 5, 10 years. There are plenty of ways for the fediverse to grow apart from more lemmy users signing up.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Honestly I think its a fairly healthy size right now. I don’t know what the future holds but I know I’m much happier with the size now than I was 2-3 years ago.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 11 months ago
Good.
iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Lets keep it that way?
helmet91@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In my opinion, social media is extremely harmful to society. Fediverse has implemented some proper moderation, while those more popular platforms tend to amplify what makes this world crazy (and eventually completely destroyed).
If there’s one reason why it’s not okay that those platforms are more popular than the fediverse, it’s that at least the Fediverse has the chance to properly moderate content, while on those platforms it’s either unmoderated, or even worse, the quality content is oppressed.
dan@upvote.au 11 months ago
Fediverse has implemented some proper moderation
Has it? I don’t think Lemmy has proper moderation tools yet; nothing is stopping someone from spinning up a new instance and posting inappropriate content/images, which then gets replicated to other servers.
sturlabragason@lemmy.world 11 months ago
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 months ago
3 billion monthly active users? Bull. Bots maybe.
lil@lemy.lol 11 months ago
3 Billion Devices Run Java
doidera@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
It is wrong
garibaldi_biscuit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
NTS
quo@feddit.uk 11 months ago
[deleted]possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
And no one is going to federate with them. They will destroy us and ruin everything.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
it’s bonkers not to generate them just because you’re gatekeeping - especially if you want the fediverse to grow into the mainstream
BigVault@kbin.social 11 months ago
I don’t care how big or small it is, as long as it remains real.
I believe I’ve seen more organic conversation in the fediverse than I have on any other platform.
It’s either bots, ads or ad bots everywhere else.
Being tiny makes it less appealing to the megacorp cunts that would want to ruin it.
kpw@kbin.social 11 months ago
We can only imagine how the internet was to the natives before the eternal September.