• Matt@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is a strange take - Mastodon makes up ~80% of the Fediverse, whereas Lemmy makes up like 3% or something.

    Mastodon is the entire reason the Fediverse as a whole ended up taking off - for most people, it is the only thing they are aware of.

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      1 year ago

      According to fediverse observer Lemmy hit 2.2 million users to mastodons 8 million, so it’s up to like 17% now!

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        1 year ago

        Not accurate unfortunately as the vast majority are bots. It’s more along the lines of 300k to 500k currently.

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            It was obvious - the instances are not shown on sources like fedidb.org anymore, but if you went to the instances which were growing fastest, all the accounts on there had gibberish names with almost no user activity.

            It would be great if Lemmy actually had 2 million users, but it just doesn’t, sorry. :(

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      1 year ago

      I think the reality is just that microblogging is always going to be devoid of content when compared to a messageboard system like lemmy or reddit

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        Microblogging success seems to come from very popular users with many followers, such as celebrities, athletes, institutions, etc. Without these, Twitter would also feel empty.