something really heckin cool: popular posts on mastodon/the fediverse routinely get numbers like this. this is really fucking giant for a network that people have said is dying at least three or four times
@omgheatherjana @switter we already got numbers like this before switter, tbh, with the Japanese instances; also, back when instances were small but there was a much greater proportion of active users
@omgheatherjana @switter yeah def
@er1n holy shit where and how? I've never seen numbers get up to the 400s
@KitRedgrave @er1n You have to open the post on the origin to get the full numbers, just FYI.
@gargron @er1n @KitRedgrave i wonder if the people who claim it's dying/dead don't realize that
@KitRedgrave @er1n @gargron although i also see the "i only follow three users and my timeline is dead" attitude a lot
@KitRedgrave @Gargron this is from this post: https://mastodon.social/@natecull/100109432395996840
@er1n The most toxic thing for Mastodon/Fediverse is the all the people who spread this idea that it's a ghost town. We could be expanding even faster if people stopped spewing such kneejerk bullshit. It doesn't have Kanye West, but it's a hell of a lot more social here. More decentralized projects need to utilize decentralization better like Mastodon does.
@woozle @er1n We don't need to be huge, I'm already enjoying this place as it is. So much that I've had to cut back. But the beauty of the fediverse is that you can still be as small a community as you want to be. You can still form that small elite club and have your own timeline there, even if the whole world joins the fediverse overnight.
@Alonealastalovedalongthe @ninmi @er1n
Call it the "niche effect".
Mastodon should be full of niches. The present structure helps this a little, but more could be done. (Wasn't Gargron talking about adding something equivalent to Groups / Communities a few months back? If he's not going to do it, someone should.)
@woozle @Alonealastalovedalongthe @er1n I do still believe the current direction is the right one. Instances themselves are branded and function as communities. This not only heavily encourages decentralization, but gives it more tangible meaning.
You're right about there being more to be done, and I think a good place to start is education towards running your own Mastodon/Pleroma/whatever else server.
@lordbowlich @dumpling @ninmi @er1n Anonymous free culture is the best of internet culture.
@dumpling @ninmi @er1n The only Royal Wedding I care about~ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdqzjsNVQAA3vJL.jpg
@er1n More importantly, there’s a much smaller standard deviation on how popular posts get here compared to Twitter, so there’s not as much disparity between the average and most successful posts.
@er1n I don't know why people say its dying - if it was dying I wouldn't have a feed full of interesting posts every day! And we don't need to be big - a good community can be big or small.
@er1n @Antanicus I crosspost and have noticed that some of my posts are more popular on Mastodon than Twitter - generally cat photos, computer geek stuff, and (trans)gender thoughts/news.
@er1n I never get anywhere near htose kinds of numbers because everyone here hates me
@er1n @switter says yer welcome 🤓 💋 🌈 :weed: