Fediverse

Everyone is okay. I haven't even seen sinophobia yet

I'm doing my part!

It‘s like Twitter basically, but since it‘s also in the fediverse there is a bit of overlap where Mastodon people can comment on Lemmy/kbin stuff too anyway. Usually they have something like @LostCause and hashtags like #mastodon and so on in their comments, that‘s how I typically spot them.

So their growth is relevant for us, but you don‘t need to make an account there.

I don't think there's any advertising budget being spent on these fedi platforms, which makes it impressive they've grown so much from media exposure and word of mouth.

The fediverse isn't driven by profit, so growth for the sake of growth isn't necessary. Word of mouth will let the fediverse platforms grow naturally and sustainably

Do they really? I prefer quality over quantity. We don't really need a massive influx of users, just steady growth.

Advertising requires money. Its a slippery slope that'll lead us down the same path as Reddit again. We're better than that.

I spent some time on Threads to see how it was and it's a fucking cesspool of like-mongering and look at me oneupsmanship bullshit that was so fucking tiring to look at that I deleted the app after 4 days.

Threads has 100m phantom accounts. A lot of them are bots. Who knows how many of those are real users.

Well, it would best to compare apples to apples, there are 8M total Mastodon accounts to 108M Threads accounts.

For active users if we assume the same active ratio (probably not, but I couldn't find any data for Threads on that from a 1 minute search), then it would be 2 million to 27 million, which is small but it wouldn't "completely" drown out Mastodon.

You gotta follow some people, and also hashtags. Following hashtags made a huge difference populating my feed. There's no algorithm so you get to/have to choose what you want to see.

I also use the ice cubes app for mastodon, which has a trending option also for when I want to see what's gaining traction outside of my follows.

You get out what you put in.

Finding people to follow in Mastodon mostly happens by:

• Search topics using hashtags
• Randomly browsing local feeds of different instances
• Randomly browsing the federated feed
• Randomly browsing local feed

There are instances for different interests like game development, art, information security, foss etc so there's a lot of places to dig for good content.

Hashtags are your friend. It also helps if you have some active posters for the tag. I get good content from following #sciencefiction #coffee and #python.