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Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves (www.politico.eu)

submitted 2 weeks ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/372863

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/61363

The right-wing billionaire’s platform has recently lost about 10 percent of its European user base.

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[-] Zink@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

As an American I think I have a good way for the fediverse to gain momentum as people flee fascist US tech companies.

achem….

“Europe! Canada! Fucking HELP! We broke everything again!”

Seriously though, while government-run and “official” instances may not be a fit for many of us here, it could make huge strides with mainstream users. Maybe getting a large percentage of people invite onboard in a small country or two could be the seed that gets it to spread.

[-] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

[-] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, Mastodon is German, so they're probably moving here. The federated fork of Dorsey's Twitter is second.

[-] tfm@europe.pub 5 points 2 weeks ago

"federated"

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There is always that one comment saying "b-but its technically kinda federated". It doesnt fucking matter if its federated if 99.999% of all users are on one instance. The entire concept of a long lived, enshittification resistant fediverse relies entirely on being decentralized with a reasonably evenly distributed userbase. You fucking bet lemmy would already be completely worthless right now if people hadnt stopped lemmy.world from grabbing more communities and users.

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