cross-posted from: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/494473
Compared against the predominant incumbent social media platforms, the fediverse is very small.
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Is YouTube a socmed site?
Does it allow you to be social and participate in conversations?
So yes.
if the fediverse gets to hundreds of millions of users, we'd better hope that we solve for moderation.
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.
We can only imagine how the internet was to the natives before the eternal September.
Don't think this is accurate. E.g how is LinkedIn bigger than Twitter?
LinkedIn is huge. Most office workers would have one
What percent of humans use facebook! When take out children to young to use fb, people with out internet, what is the actual percent.
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